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Old Dec 6, 2009 | 6:15 am
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Originally Posted by AngryMiller
Wonder what the threshold is for a hand swabbing? Recently a guy in the UK was arrested for having 9 nanograms of RDX contamination on his hand.
9 nanograms sounds like an infinitesimal amount, but why else would you have trace amounts of RDX on your hands unless you were handling RDX? Did this person handle explosives as part of his job? Military/Demolitions etc? Could he have been cross contaminated? For such a trace amount it certainly sounds like cross contamination.
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