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REVIEW OF ACUTE HUMAN-TOXICITY ESTIMATES FOR SELECTED CHEMICAL-WARFARE AGENTS
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Committee on Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies |
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Paperback |
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0309074940 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780309074940 |
| Publisher: |
NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 July, 1997 |
| Pages: |
100 |
| Description: |
No reliable acute-exposure1 standards have been established for the particular purpose of protecting soldiers from toxic exposures to chemical warfare (CW) agents. This title presents an independent review of the Chemical Defense Equipment Process Action Team (CDEPAT) report to determine the scientific validity of the proposed estimates. |
| Synopsis: |
No reliable acute-exposure1 standards have been established for the particular purpose of protecting soldiers from toxic exposures to chemical warfare (CW) agents. Some human-toxicity estimates are available for the most common CW agents--organophosphorus nerve agents and vesicants; however, most of those estimates were developed for offensive purposes (that is, to kill or incapacitate the enemy) and were intended to be interim values only. Because of the possibility of a chemical attack by a foreign power, the Army's Office of the Surgeon General asked the Army's Chemical Defense Equipment Process Action Team (CDEPAT) to review the toxicity data for the nerve agents GA (tabun), GB(sarin), GD (soman), GF, and VX, and the vesicant agent sulfur mustard (HD) and to establish a set of exposure limits that would be useful in protecting soldiers from toxic exposures to those agents. This report is an independent review of the CDEPAT report to determine the scientific validity of the proposed estimates. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
National Academies Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |