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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

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Morpho Detection Introduces Non-Radioactive ETD Morpho Detection has launched a new desktop explosives trace detector (ETD), the Itemiser 4DX, which features a non-radioactive ion trap mobility spectrometer source. Morpho Detection, part of France’s Safran Group, joins Implant Sciences [IMSC] and Britain’s Smiths Detection in offering non-radioactive ETD systems to global markets. Morpho says its new system eliminates the administrative, regulatory, storage and shipping requirements associated with a radiation-emitting trace detection source. “The result of almost 15 years of Itemiser systems…

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