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Article: Chemical Industry Garments adapted for First-Responders.
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- National Defense
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Researchers are discovering that protective garments designed to keep industrial-chemical workers safe in the workplace, also can protect local first-responders--firefighters, emergency medical teams and law enforcement personnel--in cases of hazardous-material spills or terrorist attacks with nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) or conventional weapons.
"For industry, protective garments are the last line of defense," said Jim Zeigler, a research associate with Dupont's Nonwovens products division in Richmond, Va. "In the event of an NBC incident, they would be the first line of defense for the first-responder."
Materials for protective garments are ...