The Bruker RoadRunner, an innovative, hand-held explosives and narcotics trace detector has passed the challenging ECAC testing protocol with outstanding results and is now the only handheld explosives trace detection instrument (ETD) on the market that meets ECAC standards for both, passenger and cargo screening using hand or wand sampling.

This light-weight, hand-held instrument has the same outstanding detection performance as a state-of-the art benchtop ETD instrument. The rugged RoadRunner is battery-operated, weighs just 7.7 lbs (3.5 kg) including battery, and offers dual modes for ‘sniffing’ vapour samples directly, as well as for thermal desorption of particles captured by swabs. A battery lifetime of 4 hours combined with a hot-swap battery feature further expands the usability of RoadRunner. Its non-radioactive photoionization source simplifies maintainability by removing the need to comply with regulations for radioactive source safety. The incorporation of CHIRP-IMS technology provides the sensitivity and selectivity of a bench-top trace detector in a hand-held design with pistol grip. This patented feature, coupled with continuous automatic internal calibration, makes manual calibration and verification steps obsolete and simplifies day-to-day operation whilst providing the users with truly outstanding detection performance in a go-anywhere format.