Radioactivity Laboratory for Food and Environmental samples, State General Laboratory

GENERAL INFORMATION

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Name of infrastructure: Radioactivity Laboratory for Food and Environmental samples, State General Laboratory

Hosting Entity

State General Laboratory

Scientific Domain: 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.

Research Infrastructure Policy

Please click the link below to read the Open Access Policy for the Research Infrastructure:

SGL Open Access Policy

USEFUL FIGURES

2

Personnel

50%

Male

50%

Female

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