Edgewood Chemical Biological Center of the U.S. Army visits VISAVET
Jorge Christian, chief engineer of RDECOM laboratory, visited the Reference Laboratory of Biological Alert Network of Spain (RE-LAB)
October 22nd, 2014
Coinciding with the meetings about NBQ protection that will be carried out these days by the NATO in Madrid, Luis Martin Otero, Coordinator of VISAVET Reference Laboratory of Biological Alert Network of Spain (RE-LAB), has received Jorge Christian who is chief engineer at Edgewood Center and responsible of research and innovation of collective and individual protection of U.S. Army.
Christian showed his interest in biological containment facilities of the Complutense University and the technology of micro-encapsulation of molecules that Inesfly company has been performed. This technology has been developed for collective and individual protection equipment against biological vector threats and has been successfully used by the Spanish Army in peace missions, both in Africa and in the Middle East. The main interest of the U.S. Army is to introduce this Spanish technology in their NBQ protection equipment including collective and individual. Besides, they want to develop new applications using this technology in order to neutralize chemical effects.
VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre
Complutense University