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Radioactivity Laboratory for Food and Environmental samples, State General Laboratory

GENERAL INFORMATION

  Radioactivity Laboratory for Food and Environmental samples, State General Laboratory
State General Laboratory
State General Laboratory
  Analytical Facilities
Description and purpose of the Research Infrastructure
SCOPE Official control, monitoring and surveillance of radioactivity and applied research in: • Food • Water • Air • Terrestrial and Marine Environment Our aim is: • The protection of public health and vulnerable groups from ionizing radiation • The creation of a database for future use in case of a nuclear accident or a radiological emergency incidence.

USEFUL FIGURES

Personnel

2

Personnel

Male

50%

Male

Female

50%

Female

Publications

1

Publications

ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Academia

CONTACT INFO

Address:  44 Kimonos, Acropoli

Postal Code:  1451

City:  Nicosia

Website:  http://www.moh.gov.cy/sgl

Head of RI:  Eleni Prokopiou

Contact Person of RI:  A. Achilleos   |  22809103

INFORMATION OF INSTRUMENTATION OPERATING IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE

Muffle Furnace
  • Name:  Muffle Furnace
  • Description:  Determination of Sr90 in fresh milk samples. After drying the milk samples under IR lamps the second step is ashing the sample in a muffle furnace.
  • Units:  1
  • Hosting Laboratory / Department:  Radioactivity Laboratory for Food and Environmental Samples
Brief description of the utilization of the instrument:
milk
Year:  2007
Funding Source: 
  • National
High purity germanium detector
  • Name:  High purity germanium detector
  • Description:  Gamma radionuclides with emitting energies between 60 -1836 KeV
  • Units:  1
  • Hosting Laboratory / Department:  Radioactivity Laboratory for Food and Environmental Samples
Brief description of the utilization of the instrument:
measurement of radioactivity from gamma ray emitting radionuclides in drinking and surface water, foodstuff, seawater, soils, groundwater, air filters
Year:  2006
Liquid scintillator
  • Name:  Liquid scintillator
  • Description:  Gross alpha and beta activity
  • Units:  1
  • Hosting Laboratory / Department:  Radioactivity Laboratory for Food and Environmental Samples
Brief description of the utilization of the instrument:
drinking water
Year:  2019
Funding Source: 
  • National
alpha spectrometry
  • Name:  alpha spectrometry
  • Description:  alpha emitting particles such as Uranium isotopes
  • Units:  2
  • Hosting Laboratory / Department:  Radioactivity Laboratory for Food and Environmental Samples
Brief description of the utilization of the instrument:
drinking water
Year:  2009
Gas proportional counter
  • Name:  Gas proportional counter
  • Description:  Total alpha and beta radiation, Sr90 in milk samples
  • Units:  2
  • Hosting Laboratory / Department:  Radioactivity Laboratory for Food and Environmental Samples
Brief description of the utilization of the instrument:
drinking water, milk samples, air filters
Year:  2005