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Rutherford County approves five-year warranty and cleaning kit for new mass spectrometer as sheriff warns of xylazine
Summary
The county approved a five-year warranty upgrade and a $4,039.77 core cleaning kit for a newly purchased mass spectrometer and asked the sheriff's office to provide quarterly reports after deputies reported local deaths involving xylazine and warned that naloxone may not reverse its effects.
Rutherford County's opioid advisory board voted to approve a five-year warranty upgrade and a separate core cleaning kit for a newly purchased mass spectrometer, and asked the sheriff's office to provide quarterly usage and trend reports.
The board approved the five-year warranty after a motion and second; the sheriff's office said the vendor, Safeware, quoted an additional cost of $35,860.07 to extend coverage beyond the machine's base one-year warranty (the base machine price for the one-year warranty was reported in the meeting as $74,318.18). The board separately approved a core cleaning and battery reconditioning kit priced at…
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