Lead Poison Detection
Originally published in 1976
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With NASA contracts, Whittaker Corporations Space Science division has developed an electro-optical instrument to mass screen for lead poisoning. Device is portable and detects protoporphyrin in whole blood. Free corpuscular porphyrins occur as an early effect of lead ingestion. Also detects lead in urine used to confirm blood tests. Test is inexpensive and can be applied by relatively unskilled personnel. Similar Whittaker fluorometry device called drug screen" can measure morphine and quinine in urine much faster and cheaper than other methods. "
Full article: http://hdl.handle.net/hdl:2060/20030005435
Abstract
With NASA contracts, Whittaker Corporations Space Science division has developed an electro-optical instrument to mass screen for lead poisoning. Device is portable and detects protoporphyrin in whole blood. Free corpuscular porphyrins occur as an early effect of lead ingestion. Also detects lead in urine used to confirm blood tests. Test is inexpensive and can be applied by relatively unskilled personnel. Similar Whittaker fluorometry device called drug screen" can measure morphine and quinine in urine much faster and cheaper than other methods. "
Lead Poison Detection
Lead Poison Detection
