Henceforth, Smiths Detection IONSCAN 600™ detects narcotics

IONSCAN 600.

Henceforth with IONSCAN 600, users in the aviation, ports and borders or critical infrastructure; in addition to existing capabilities for explosives can use the portable desktop IONSCAN 600 to detect a range of narcotics such as amphetamine, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, MDA, MDMA and others. This capability will be important to front-line organisations including customs authorities, prisons and other secure facilities, which have a growing requirement to detect and identify illegal narcotics and other controlled substances. 

The new version of IONSCAN 600, available from June 2016, will offer the option to identify both narcotics and explosives, either separately or both simultaneously. 

One can also recall that, from October 2016, the IONSCAN 600 will also offer an optional built-in compact thermal printer to enable analysis results and logs to be documented on the spot.