Postal substation cordoned off  for most of the afternoon – photo 250News

Prince George, B.C.-  It took a few hours, but  the  white substance   discovered at the Canada Post Sub station in the BCR industrial site in Prince George today , has been determined to be "non-hazardous."

Emergency personnel  including  police, ambulance and fire and rescue,  were on scene  at the  station for much of the afternoon.  The substation was cordoned  off and no one was allowed in or out.

Northern Health had issued a "Code Orange" at the University Hospital of Northern B.C.,   prepared to accept  between 5 and 19 people who might have been  exposed to this  substance.

But all is clear now.

While the susbtance  has been deemed "non hazardous"   officials are not saying   exactly what the   powder was.     A similar scenario was being played out in Quesnel, where the  trailer unit  that had stopped at the  P.G.  postal site,   had also made a stop.