Additives are used in the textile industry to enhance product properties or to make processing simpler. As textile fibers are manufactured, and garments are produced from those fibers, they move through a significant number of process steps, many of which employ a large number of chemicals. In an ideal scenario, only finishing chemicals and dyes will be present in the final, completed product, but other potentially harmful chemicals have also been detected in textile pieces. The PULVERISETTE 19 Universal Cutting Mill from FRITSCH offers the possibility to grind textiles and protective masks in order to properly prepare them for further analysis.