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AN ARMY BOMB disposal team made a quantity of unsafe acid safe at a laboratory in Celbridge, Co Kildare this evening.
The Defence Forces team was called to the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, where the acid was found during a routine audit of chemicals on site. The acid is a chemical reagent which can crystallise and become unstable over time.
The chemicals were removed to waste ground nearby, where they were subjected to a controlled explosion. The scene was declared safe at 5.50pm.
The team recently carried out a controlled explosion on a quantity of unstable Picric Acid discovered at the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland in Dublin.
So far this year, the bomb disposal team been called out 16 times to deal with unstable chemicals. Today was their 165th call out so far this year overall.
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I hope the companies in question are being charged for this service by the army! It’s as a result of poor housekeeping, and improper stock management. Householders have to pay fire service.
companies? I’m afraid it’s the state in this case Iain.
That’s not the Department of Agriculture laboratory, is it?
Again with the picric acid. A very popular chemical. We use it for creatinine determination in the lab. But it must have many other uses.
I hope the companies in question are being charged for this service. Disposal of chemicals is expensive and avoiding this disposal costs results in holding on the chemicals for too long until this happens…poor housekeeping, fixed by the taxpayer I wonder?
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