Notice bibliographique du personnel « Detecting pesticide residues on museum objects in Canadian collections — a summary of surveys spanning a twenty-year period »
- Titre
- Detecting pesticide residues on museum objects in Canadian collections — a summary of surveys spanning a twenty-year period
- Auteur ou éditeur
- Sirois, P. Jane
- Poulin, Jennifer
- Stone, Thomas G.
- Date de publication
- Fall 2010
- Collation
- 28-45
- Titre de la source
- Collection forum
- Numéro de la source
- vol. 24, no. 1-2
- Résumé
- The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) has provided analytical support to Canadian museums for over 20 years by assisting with the detection of pesticide residues in over 2,000 objects in various collections. In the 1980s primarily natural history collections were analyzed using x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) to detect arsenic and mercury. XRF was chosen because it could be performed on site, was nondestructive and produced no hazardous waste. The realization that ethnographic and anthropology collections also were potentially contaminated with pesticides led to testing objects in those collections as well. Requests to test educational collections to ensure that objects being handled by children were safe also were received. More recently, testing for organic pesticides has become part of on-site pesticide surveys. The pesticides tested for in most collection surveys are: arsenic-, mercury- and lead-based compounds, bromine residues, DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) and its analogues, and naphthalene and para-dichlorobenzene (PDB) in the storage atmosphere. When information in museum records suggests the use of other pesticides, testing would be undertaken to detect evidence of those compounds as well. The compiled survey data has provided information that has assisted museums to develop proper handling and storage guidelines for objects in their collections: undergoing conservation treatments, being sent out on loan and used in exhibitions, for research, and for other purposes.
- Langue
- English = Anglais
- ISBN/ISSN
- 08314985
- Pays
- United States
- Type de document
- Journal Article = Article de périodique
- Localisation
- PER
- Clé
- 1878
- Collection
- Staff Bibliography