Rikei Starts to Sell Spray-type Explosives / Drug Test Kits

Rikei Corporation (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President & CEO: Katsuei Aoyagi) is pleased to announce that Rikei has concluded an agreement with Mistral Group based in Israel, starting to sell their "portable and easy to use" Explosives Detection Kits and Drug Detection Kits in Japan.

These detection kits are available in either spray-type or solution-type, and when they are blown onto a very small amount of residues of explosives or drug collected on a collection paper sheet, color-change reaction is immediately observed if the result is positive, allowing you to determine presence or non-presence of explosives or drugs and also their types. As these kits are light-weight portable types, anybody can easily hand-carry them to any place and any time for immediate detection and identification of explosives or drugs. Price per set which allows you to conduct more than 100 times of tests to determine presence or non-presence of multiple types of explosives or drugs is about Yen 70,000. We believe this price is very inexpensive when you consider the effect of the products. For this reason, these products are highly recommendable for the first stage investigation which requires the test results immediately at the investigation front.

The test kits which are released this time are as follows.

Explosives Test Kit:

Available in two types, Spray Type "EXPRAY" and Solution Type "DROPEX"

Types of explosives which can be detected:

• Group A Explosives: TNT, DNT, etc.
• Group B Explosives: Nitroglycerine, Semtex, etc.
• Inorganic Bomb: Nitrate based improvised explosives, Gun Powder, etc.
• New Inorganic Bomb: Chlorate based improvised explosives, TATP(Tri Aceton, Tri Peroxide) etc.

Drug Test Kit

Spray Type

Types of Detectable Drugs:

• Set of four sprays, each of which is designed to detect Hashish or Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroine or Amphetamine, and one single spray ("D4D") which is capable of detecting all these drugs.

Mistral Group based in Israel is a unique manufacturer that is specializing in chemical color-change reaction technologies, supplying these test kits to the U.S.A. and Europe. The U.S. Army is using the company's explosives test kits in Iraq, and legal authorities, police forces and customers of many countries are using their explosives and drug test kits.

Rikei believes the use of these kits is very effective for the need to detect explosives as a part of Japan's strengthened anti-terrorism efforts as well as a part of activities related to the sprit of the People Protection Law and also for the need to detect drugs to prevent young people from getting addicted to drugs. In view of such circumstances, Rikei plans to promote and sell these kits mainly to police stations across Japan, Japanese customs and the Self-Defense Force with a sales plan of about Yen 20M for the initial one-year period.