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Fentanyl contamination, exposure, detection, risk and decontamination
Citation:
Oudejans, L. AND S. Willison. Fentanyl contamination, exposure, detection, risk and decontamination . Presented at NACCHO 2022 Preparedness Summit, Atlanta, GA, April 03 - 07, 2022.
Impact/Purpose:
Illicit fentanyl activities create exposure risks to law enforcement, first responders, and remediation contractors. Remediation operations will benefit from improved knowledge on sampling for and in situ neutralization options of fentanyl and its analogs on building materials. This presentation and hands on demonstration will provide an overview of EPA’s role in a fentanyl response and demonstrate sampling and decontamination approaches based on results from research that was initiated to fill select gaps identified during the development of EPA’s Fentanyl Fact Sheet for OSCs. The results of this research will inform the EPA response community as well as other Federal, State, Tribal and Local agencies on the means to decontaminate, and clear for re-occupancy indoor environments contaminated with fentanyl.
Description:
Abstarct for the 2022 NACCHO Preparedness Summit. Thsi abstarct describes that a successful approach to ensuring the safety of law enforcement, first responders, remediation contractors, and the public can be developed by coordinating the separate approaches to estimating the toxicity/risk, remediation efficacy and analytical detection capability for fentanyl, its analogs and derivatives.