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 Three fatalities and more than a dozen first responders required evaluation and decontamination following exposure to a powdered opioid substance during an emergency response. The incident illustrates the continuing operational need for rapid field stabilization and containment measures during suspicious powder encounters. 

BLOC has been proven in the field and protected hundreds from exposure.

BLOC is easy to deploy and immediately effective in the containment of suspicious powders.

The deployment of BLOC does not prevent field tests or forensic analysis of unknown powders.

“We are working very closely, you may or may not know, with our Office of Science and Technology, to look at the containment technology and we will procure it; in conjunction with S & T if it is determined to be viable technology.”

Many agencies were told incorrect information about fentanyl... Casual contact to the skin does NOT result in an overdose. Inhalation is the main route of exposure.

Frontline personnel are at risk of unnecessary exposure to fentanyl and other lethal powders. Containment devices are a necessary form of PPE.