AOAC SPADA Meeting

National Guard Response Sectors

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Soil Testing on the PR2 • 1X Phosphate buffered saline + 0.1% Triton X-100 (PBST) • Purified botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A), ricin, and Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin B (SEB) • NIST Soils: Montana I, New York/New Jersey Waterway Sediment, Flint Clay • 4 extraction protocols/buffers were tested  Current CST  10X PBST  MSD proprietary buffer (PBST with BSA and azide)  MO BIO NoviPure TM Soil Protein Extraction Kit (garnet beads + vortex)

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