Explosives Imitations

Imitations of the scent of drugs and explosives are used to train dogs to detect the drugs and explosives. The odor of a scent imitation is completely identical to that of the real substance a dog is trained to find. After a course of training on scent imitations, the dogs easily locate real explosives and drugs.
Master Dog Training is the exclusive distributor of the US made scent imitations for service dog training.
The most common scents used to train explosive detection canines are

TNT
tetryl
RDX
dynamite
HMX
PETN
black powder, smokeless powder

These explosives imitations have an active service life of 1.5 years.