ASAP III: CBRNe Screening for Mail Rooms

Is your mail room protected against CBRNe threats? Biowarfare agents, toxic chemicals, and explosives can turn up in the mailrooms of high-value targets such as corporations, banks, and government agencies - harming staff, shutting down businesses, and contaminating buildings for months. In today's world, organizations need protection from such threats.

Research International's ASAP III system for mail rooms is the latest generation of mail room CBRNe protection, offering:

• Significantly reduced cost of consumables
• Reduced testing frequency
• State-of-the-art UV-based biodetection
• Automatic, immediate biocollection when a threat is detected
• Testing for up to eight biothreat agents simultaneously
• Proprietary machine-vision bioidentification technology
• Effective, rapid testing: results in 30 minutes or less
• Minimal work flow disruption
• Control software
• Multiple options for additional testing: Chemical, drugs of abuse, explosives, radiological and nuclear

Reducing the cost of consumables: With ASAP III, biological testing is only required when the built-in bioaerosol detector senses a threat. Instead of testing every batch of mail, testing is reduced to as little as once or twice per month.

How we do it: The key is Research International's BioHawk® LF integrated biodetector/collector/identifier. This sophisticated instrument combines three Research International proprietary technologies: 1) UV‑based bioaerosol detection capability; 2) automated cyclonic wet sample collection; and 3) machine-vision test reading capability.

Earlier screening systems required biological testing of each batch of mail. With ASAP III, testing only occurs when a biothreat is detected. The BioHawk® LF then automatically tests for up to eight of the most common biothreat agents simultaenously.

Chemical, explosive particle, drugs of abuse, radiation: These optional CRNE components of the system will detect, identify and report in seconds. Expandable default libraries screen for dozens of chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial chemicals, and drugs of abuse. Radiation is detected and reported in less than one second.

Worker safety: The ASAP III system is typically housed in a negative pressure room equipped with a down draft table, custom designed for your requirements. An air sampling module in the system continuously samples air drawn into the downdraft table while mail is being jogged or opened over the table’s perforated top surface, providing appropriate samples to the biological identification components, while ensuring that any potential toxins are immediately drawn away from workers.

Fast, real-time processing: The ASAP III system can process thousands of pieces of mail per hour. Sampling operates continuously until processing of a batch of mail is complete, whether it is a few or several hours.

Low consumables cost: The use consumables in the ASAP III system is minimized by testing only when the biodetector has observed a threat.

Minimal staff training: ASAP III is designed to be operated by general mailroom personnel and is fully automated, requiring little operator assistance.

Control software: Our proprietary ASAP III control software monitors all subsystems and allows the user to adjust parameters as necessary. Easy to install and use.