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XRF Training Provides Tools to Test for Toxics in Consumer Goods and the Environment

EcoWaste Coalition, EARTH and IPEN carried out a two-day training on the Xray Fluorescence Spectrum Analyzer (XRF) in November in Bangkok. The XRF can be used to measure products such as toys, handbags, costume jewelry, school supplies and other consumer goods for the presence of dangerous toxic metals like lead, mercury, arsenic, antimony, cadmium, and chromium.

Amongst other things, the training provided information on radiation safety, principles of the XRF device, and its applications and other potential uses; presented opportunities to share experiences and lessons learned in the use of the XRF device to screen materials for toxic metals and contaminated sites and advance chemical policy reforms; and identified policy initiatives that can be developed out of the use of the XRF device. The training, held a few days prior to the sixth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting for the Mercury Treaty (INC6), also included a field visit to a contaminated site outside Bangkok.

An XRF company representative explains how to read testing resultsScanning some items with the XRF machine