University of Helsinki (UH) Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention ( VERIFIN)  Laboratory for verification of the chemical warfare agents  Accreditation under ISO/IEC 17025:2005  Coordinator of the International guidelines: Blue Books ; Recommended Operating Procedures for analysis in the verification of chemical disarmament, 1993, 1994, 2011 Editions  Research focus on chemical warfare agents since 1973  Analysis of agents and their degradation products in environmental samples  Analysis of exposure based on biomedical samples  Research on agent metabolites  Research on decontamination solutions  Toxin research (main focus on ricin and marine toxins)  Related fields of research  Toxic industrial chemicals (TICs)  Central Nervous System (CNS)-acting chemicals

University of Helsinki (UH) Laboratory of Radiochemistry (UHLR)  Environmental radioactivity  Transfer and migration of radionuclides in environment and food chains (radioecology)  Radioactive deposition from nuclear weapons testing (1950’s ’s)  Radioactive deposition from Chernobyl accident  IAEA Safeguards support programs in Semipalatinsk and Iraq (wide area environmental sampling, plutonium and uranium isotope ratios)  Development of analytical methods for determining radionuclides in the environment

VERIFIN  Capacity to handle/analyse live-agents and toxic proteins e.g. ricin  Synthesis facility for toxic chemicals  2 x NMR (500 MHz, 600 MHz, LC– NMR option)  Gas Chromatography-based instrumentation  3 x GC–MS Q  1 x GC–MS/MS QQQ  Liquid Chromatography-based instrumentation  3 x LC–MS n LIT, 2xQQQ  1 x LC–HRMS n Q-LIT-Orbitrap Laboratory of Radiochemistry  Cyclotron  FESEM  ICP-MS and ICP-OES  HR-ICP-MS’s  Gamma spectrometers (3)  Alpha spectrometers (30 chambers)  Liquid scintillation counters (4)  Gamma counters (2)  Whole body counter  HPLCs  Beta-imager  Particle size analyser  Gamma irradiation source Research facilities