Astrotech says TSA grants TRACER 1000 acceptance for ACSTL

Astrotech announce that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has approved the TRACER 1000 for the Air Cargo Security Technology List. This action advances the TRACER 1000 to Stage II testing, whereupon successful completion of field testing will move it to the “Qualified” section on the ACSTL. This approval was awarded after the TRACER 1000 was thoroughly assessed by the TSA QG2 Technical Review Panel. Regulated parties in the U.S., such as the air cargo market, which are required to utilize the ACSTL can now purchase the TRACER 1000. The Astrotech TRACER 1000 Mass Spectrometer Technology is now being used at both airport cargo and passenger checkpoints in fourteen countries after being certified by the European Civil Aviation Conference in 2020. ECAC is analogous to the TSA in the U.S. Mass spectrometry is recognized as the gold standard in chemical analysis because of its ultra-high vacuum that eliminates competing chemicals that can cause expensive false alarms. As a result, the TRACER 1000 achieves near-zero false alarms.