Evaluation of Viking 573 GC/MS System and Chemical Warfare Agent (CWA) Detection

Abstract : The Mobile Laboratories & Kits (ML&K) Team, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, was funded by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) to evaluate a portable Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry(CG/MS) system that they routinely use in mobile laboratory applications. The NYCDEP provided a Bruker Viking 573 CG/MS system, which was verified according to manufacturer's recommendations. Members of the ML&K Team developed methods to evaluate the capabilities of the system against six chemical warfareagents (CWAs), including the Limit of Detection (LOD) and dynamic range for all six CWA compounds in organic solvent and soil matrices.