• Officials at an Army chemical and biological storage and testing facility did not follow protocols while tracking inventories of sarin, a dangerous nerve agent, according to a recent inspector general report. (armytimes.com)
  • Meaning that the container that contained the actual agent, such as sarin, was not physically inspected. (armytimes.com)
  • Additionally, Dugway officials did not "immediately notify the chemical materials accountability officer" of a 1.5 milliliter shortage of sarin discovered during an April 19, 2016, inventory. (armytimes.com)
  • You're in an enclosed crowded place-perhaps a subway or a mall-and a terrorist organization releases lethal quantities of a nerve agent such as sarin into the air. (cdc.gov)
  • Chemicals tested included the nerve gases VX and Sarin, toxic chemicals such as zinc cadmium sulfide and sulfur dioxide, and a variety of biological agents. (ahrp.org)
  • 2014). Some of the examples of nerve agents include Soman, Sarin and Vx. (ivoryresearch.com)
  • Later, he led the research team that produced sarin, or GB, the most toxic of the all the so-called G-series nerve agents. (iflscience.com)
  • A chemical weapon agent (CWA), or chemical warfare agent, is a chemical substance whose toxic properties are meant to kill, injure or incapacitate human beings. (wikipedia.org)
  • Destruction of chemical warfare agent stockpiles at Pueblo and Blue Grass is set to begin by 2017 at Pueblo and 2020 at Blue Grass. (cdc.gov)
  • The PAC and NSC staff directed CIA to have one of its contractors model multiple chemical warfare agent releases. (health.mil)
  • Modeling is the science and art of using interconnected mathematical equations to predict the activities of an actual event, in this case the direction and extent of the chemical warfare agent plume. (health.mil)
  • Experimental and computational study of the inclusion complexes of β-cyclodextrin with the chemical warfare agent soman (GD) and commonly used simulants, M. R. Sambrook, J. C. Vincent, J. A. Ede, I. A. Gass and Peter J. Cragg, M/S in preparation. (brighton.ac.uk)
  • The FPM 8000 is based on highly sensitive nano array technology which is at the heart of the sensor, making it capable of discriminating between gases and identifying target chemical warfare agent gases (CWAs) and toxic industrial compound gases (TICs). (controlequipment.com.au)
  • Effective skin decontamination is of significant military importance, as protective equipment designed to prevent exposure to chemical warfare agent (CWA) may not be worn at the time of an attack or may become compromised during military activities. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • Chemical warfare agents (CWAs) comprise a diverse group of extremely hazardous materials. (medscape.com)
  • Sulfur mustard was the major cause of chemical casualties in World War I. CWAs have been used in at least 12 conflicts since, including the first Persian Gulf War (Iraq-Iran War). (medscape.com)
  • Although the Chemical Weapons Convention and a number of international treaties have banned the development, production, and stockpiling of those CWAs with only a warfare use, these agents reportedly still are being produced or stockpiled in several countries. (medscape.com)
  • The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is working with multiple Pentagon components and commercial partners to produce and refine new paint-like coatings that can temporarily shield tactical military equipment from chemical warfare agents, or CWAs. (nextgov.com)
  • The manufacture of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) is banned under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. (brighton.ac.uk)
  • If these correlate then computer predictions concerning CWAs should also be an accurate representation of their real behaviour and remove the need to use the agents themselves. (brighton.ac.uk)
  • Rapid and accurate detection of chemical threats, such as chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs), is imperative for safety mitigation and human protection in warfare and security domains. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • The ability to detect chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and toxic industrial chemical (TIC) threats in near real-time in the field can be extremely beneficial and is finding broader utilization for a number of applications by military personnel, emergency responders, and environmental scientists. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • At Newport, the nerve agent known as VX was stockpiled in ton-sized containers. (cdc.gov)
  • DoD also chose its neutralization process followed by supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) to destroy 523 tons of nerve agent and blister agent in rockets and projectiles at Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Blue Grass, Kentucky. (cdc.gov)
  • Enzymes, the catalysts of biology, can engulf and break down hundreds of nerve agent molecules per second. (iflscience.com)
  • When a nerve agent shuts down this enzyme, classes of neurons throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems quickly get overstimulated, leading to profuse sweating, convulsions and an excruciating death by asphyxiation . (iflscience.com)
  • Gerhard Schrader, the so-called father of nerve agents , didn't begin life as a Nazi scientist - he was developing new pesticides to combat world hunger when he accidentally synthesized the first organophosphorus nerve agent. (iflscience.com)
  • They are often referred to as Riot Control Agents (RCAs) and may be used by civilian police forces against criminals and rioters, or in the military for training purposes. (wikipedia.org)
  • About 70 different chemicals have been used or stockpiled as chemical weapon agents during the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • In general, chemical weapon agents are organized into several categories (according to the physiological manner in which they affect the human body). (wikipedia.org)
  • There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that "the use of a toxic chemical as a weapon [took] place on 7 April 2018," the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said. (rt.com)
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is being sued for unlawfully reapproving toxic herbicides used to grow food that contain 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), an active ingredient used in the chemical weapon Agent Orange. (nationofchange.org)
  • But the UK, USA and many of the WESTERN countries flouridate the water supply, thus effectively using a chemical weapon on their civilian populations, and to add to that, the water is treated with chlorine(chlorine gas anyone? (abovetopsecret.com)
  • Doctors and first responders base the diagnosis of exposure to a chemical weapon on the person's symptoms. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In this effort, researchers are leaning on some of the latest advances in polymer synthesis, engineering, and coating formulations to improve both resistance from dangerous chemicals and the decontamination process of painted military surfaces "down to the stainless-steel level. (nextgov.com)
  • KOLOKOL-1 (tranquilizer) These substances are for producing chemical casualties without regard to long-term consequences or loss of life. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cyanogen chloride (CK) Hydrogen cyanide (AC) Arsine (SA) These substances are sometime referred to as pulmonary agent or lung irritants and cause injury to the lung-blood barrier resulting in Asphyxia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chlorine (CL) Chloropicrin (PS) Diphosgene (DP) Phosgene (CG) Nerve agents are substances that disrupt the chemical communications through the nervous system. (wikipedia.org)
  • Warfare or terrorism agents are a class that includes chemicals, biological substances, radioactive materials, nuclear materials, or explosives. (cdc.gov)
  • So thats two substances used in chemical warfare being added to water. (abovetopsecret.com)
  • An oxidizing agent is a substance that usually reacts by removing electrons from other substances, a process known as oxidation. (noaa.gov)
  • Metal cleaning chemicals refer to substances produced to remove oil, dirt, rust, and other contaminants, from metal surfaces. (imarcgroup.com)
  • Nerve agents, a class of synthetic phosphorous-containing compounds, are among the most toxic substances known . (iflscience.com)
  • This series of reports on animal experimentation with a large number of chemical substances by Lehmann and associates continued through Part 35 in Volume 83 (1914), followed by a final comprehensive paper of 137 pages on chlorinated hydrocarbons in Ref. 14. (cdc.gov)
  • and noninfectious agents agents not yet recognized as causing foodborne illness, (e.g., mushroom and marine biotoxins, metals, and other substances known to be in food but of unproven pathoge- nicity, and unknown agents. (cdc.gov)
  • Chemicals such as phosgene, cyanide, anhydrous ammonia, and chlorine are important precursors for manufacturing many products including plastics and agricultural products, and are widely and frequently transported. (medscape.com)
  • A blister agent is a chemical compound that irritates and causes injury to the skin. (wikipedia.org)
  • Of these, 4 patients are showing severe signs associated with exposure to a blister agent. (who.int)
  • Most stockpiles of U.S. chemical warfare agents have been destroyed. (cdc.gov)
  • Beginning in 2013, teams from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons went to Syria and, with help from the Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Chinese and U.S. government , destroyed all declared stockpiles of Syrian chemical weapons. (iflscience.com)
  • It seems that either not all of Assad's stockpiles were in fact declared and destroyed, or that new nerve agents arrived in Syria - either via the black market or chemical synthesis - in the intervening years. (iflscience.com)
  • DLS scientists work with state and local officials to collect samples and transport them to CDC where testing can be done to assess people's exposure to chemical agents. (cdc.gov)
  • Previous nationally representative data on human mercury urinary levels published in CDC's Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals were used as reference levels to which levels in the children and staff were compared. (cdc.gov)
  • Accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals continue to be a significant potential source of exposure to those agents that were also used as chemical warfare agents. (medscape.com)
  • This essay will provide a robust assessment of the mechanism of working of the chemical agents and the available treatment options in case of exposure to the agents. (ivoryresearch.com)
  • 2014). Respiratory exposure to nerve agents often leads to asphyxia and subsequently, death. (ivoryresearch.com)
  • Initial exposure to type 1 agents causes sneezing, coughing, and spasm of the windpipe, which can block the airway. (msdmanuals.com)
  • It has been claimed that whenever these limits have been implemented in a particular industry, no worker has been shown to have sustained serious adverse effects on his health as a result of exposure to these concentrations of an industrial chemical (7). (cdc.gov)
  • Although this statement is arguable with respect to the acceptability of OELs for those chemicals established before 1980, and later found to be carcinogenic, there is little doubt that millions of persons have avoided serious effects of workplace exposure due to their existence. (cdc.gov)
  • It was, of course, well understood as long ago as the fifteenth century, that airborne dusts and chemicals could bring about illness and injury, but the concentrations and durations of exposure at which this might be expected to occur were unclear (8). (cdc.gov)
  • Inorganic drug discovery with these agents has undergone considerable advances over the past two decades and has currently two representatives in active clinical trials. (rsc.org)
  • Other examples include the mixture of sugar (an organic compound) with sodium chlorate, or magnesium (an inorganic reducing agent) with barium peroxide. (noaa.gov)
  • Metal cleaning chemicals are widely used for the removal of inorganic deposits, such as flaking. (imarcgroup.com)
  • Incineration technology is used to treat the empty casings and destroy any residual chemical agents or their hazardous breakdown products. (cdc.gov)
  • Besides this, the rising environmental consciousness among the masses is encouraging the key players to introduce eco-friendly metal cleaning chemicals, which are biodegradable and do not possess hazardous chemicals. (imarcgroup.com)
  • In addition, various governments of numerous nations are imposing stringent regulations regarding the use of hazardous chemicals and the use of hazardous chemicals, along with disposal of chemical waste. (imarcgroup.com)
  • Among the halogens, iodine and chlorine are important antimicrobial agents. (brainkart.com)
  • A chemical agent disposal facility was built at each site for use in destroying its individual stockpile. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2002, DoD chose the neutralization method to destroy chemical warfare agents stored at chemical agent disposal facilities in Aberdeen, Maryland, and Newport, Indiana. (cdc.gov)
  • All the information at our disposal converges to indicate that there was a chemical massacre near Damascus and that the Bashar regime is responsible," Fabius said on a visit to Ramallah in the West Bank. (khaleejtimes.com)
  • Pulmonary agents affect the lungs and airways. (msdmanuals.com)
  • H. capsulatum is the etiologic agent of histoplasmosis, the most common pulmonary mycosis of humans and animals. (cdc.gov)
  • These include the Hague Declaration concerning Asphyxiating Gases, the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). (who.int)
  • Sulfur mustard is on the list of chemicals appearing in 'Toxic Chemicals Subject to Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986' (EPA 1987). (cdc.gov)
  • DNA can be damaged by agents such as toxic chemicals or radiation. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Opponents of Bashar Al Assad said the president's forces killed 1,300 people when they unleased chemical weapons east and southwest of Damascus in the attacks on Wednesday. (khaleejtimes.com)
  • CDC's Division of Laboratory Sciences (DLS) and National Biomonitoring Program (NBP) provide effective laboratory support for the public health response to chemical threat agents and threats involving selected toxins. (cdc.gov)
  • Early detection and accurate identification are critical to enable effective treatment and to prevent additional exposures of chemical threats. (cdc.gov)
  • The meeting focused on a wide variety of topics related to emerging chemical threats, including an assessment of current capabilities and plans to make future improvements. (dhs.gov)
  • While the workshop primarily focused on our domestic preparedness to specific emerging chemical threats, the discussions and issues raised are broadly applicable to preparedness for many types of chemical attack. (dhs.gov)
  • Orthogonal pairing of different analytical techniques can be particularly advantageous for detection of chemical threats (12,13,15). (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • The draft revision defines "disease" as an illness "caused by biological, chemical or radionuclear sources", thereby expanding the scope of the Regulations to other infectious diseases and to events and public health threats deriving from chemical and radionuclear sources. (who.int)
  • The ability of the international community, in particular through WHO's coordination, to obtain a reliable assessment of, and to respond to, potentially grave health threats would be impaired if the scope of the Regulations were limited to diseases that were already identified as being caused by infectious agents only. (who.int)
  • In 1986, Congress passed PL 99-145 (50 USC 1521) that mandated destruction of the stockpile of lethal chemical warfare agents in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • The U.S. stockpile of these agents was stored at nine sites, either in large containers or as assembled weapons and munitions. (cdc.gov)
  • Incineration is DoD's preferred method for destroying chemical warfare agents and munitions. (cdc.gov)
  • Some types of chemical munitions contain propellants or explosives in addition to chemical warfare agents. (cdc.gov)
  • The report recommended, among others, that the Army deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7, coordinate with DoD to revise Army regulations to better align with the DoD instruction on chemical agent inventory practices. (armytimes.com)
  • This course module, titled "Chemical Agents" complies with requirements of AB 2880 and Bureau of Security & Investigative Services (BSIS) training directives as in compliance with Business and Professions Code Sections 7583.6 and 7583.7 and Title 16, Division 7, Article 9, Section 643 of the California Code of Regulations. (onlinesecurityguardtraining.com)
  • This extension beyond the range of the existing Regulations is justified on the grounds that the release of chemical or radionuclear agents often manifests itself at the outset through symptoms or signs, sometimes even before their cause is known. (who.int)
  • In view of the foregoing considerations, it was decided not to respond to questions about the broader scope of the draft revised Regulations through a dedicated Article that used as a dividing line the nature of the agent causing the health threat or the existence in principle of other relevant international instruments. (who.int)
  • Additionally, chemical warfare agents and in particular, nerve agents often adversely affect the transmission of impulses and signals in the nervous system (Krutzsch et al. (ivoryresearch.com)
  • Additionally, gaseous or liquid oxidizers can cause chemical burns if inhaled or if they come into contact with skin. (noaa.gov)
  • In general, harassing agents are sensory irritants that have fleeting concentration dependent effects that resolve within minutes after removal. (wikipedia.org)
  • These sensory irritants produce immediate pain to the eyes and irritate mucous membranes (aka lachrymatory agent or lachrymator). (wikipedia.org)
  • In response to Directive #1(f.), the Milwaukee Police Department is providing a "full, public and accurate explanation" of the use of chemical irritants during recent civil disturbances. (tmj4.com)
  • however, there have been 6 instances when members of the Milwaukee Police Department have had to use chemical irritants to disperse unruly crowds. (tmj4.com)
  • Materials in this group technically do not burn, but some form of oxidizer is necessary for a combustion reaction to occur, and strong oxidizing agents can initiate or accelerate the combustion of other materials. (noaa.gov)
  • For patient education information, also see the First Aid and Injuries Center , as well as Chemical Warfare and Personal Protective Equipment . (medscape.com)
  • The military services place a priority on their ability to recover assets after a chemical agent attack and rapidly resume normal operations, free of the burden of individual protective equipment. (nextgov.com)
  • Excellent defence against nerve agents often requires robust protective overgarments and skin-tight masks (Krutzsch et al. (ivoryresearch.com)
  • In March 2005, the Aberdeen facility finished successfully destroying its stockpile of mustard agent. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2002, DoD chose neutralization followed by biotreatment as its method to destroy 2,611 tons of mustard agent in projectiles and cartridges at Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Pueblo, Colorado. (cdc.gov)
  • Chemical weapons are often associated with wars of the previous century - mustard gas in WWI, Zyklon B in WWII. (iflscience.com)
  • These include nerve agents and blister agents (vesicants). (cdc.gov)
  • Chemical releases can be unintentional, as in the case of an industrial accident, or intentional, as in the case of a terrorist attack. (cdc.gov)
  • Following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, chemical and biological testing facilities were reviewed for security and storage measures. (armytimes.com)
  • [ 2 ] inadvertent contact with chemical-laden shells from an unknown military dump site, military stockpiling, war, or terrorist attack. (medscape.com)
  • Terrorist attack in buildings by chemical and biological agents (CBAs) is a reality in our lives. (aivc.org)
  • Syrian state television said government soldiers found chemical agents in rebel tunnels in the Damascus suburb of Jobar on Saturday and some of the troops were suffocating even as global pressure on Syria continued to allow a UN inspection team into the areas affected by an alleged chemical attack. (khaleejtimes.com)
  • The US, UK, and France used the alleged attack as a pretext to launch a large-scale missile attack on Syrian government targets, which they said were involved in the production of toxic agents. (rt.com)
  • A chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people , including children , triggered the Trump administration's recent missile strikes against the Syrian government. (iflscience.com)
  • Adamsite (DM) Diphenylchloroarsine (DA) Diphenylcyanoarsine (DC) These are compounds with a very strong and unpleasant smell, which produce powerfully aversive effects without the toxic effects of tear agents or vomiting agents. (wikipedia.org)
  • Strong oxidizing agents often react vigorously with other compounds, generating heat and possibly gaseous products, which can pressurize a closed container, and which may go on to participate in further reactions. (noaa.gov)
  • Reactions of strong oxidizing agents with compounds that are known reducing agents are often explosive. (noaa.gov)
  • These compounds are generally much more sensitive than mixtures of separate oxidizing and reducing agents and may be used as detonators or primary explosives. (noaa.gov)
  • Compounds that contain both an oxidizing component and a reducing component (such compounds are often explosives) are classified in both an Oxidizing Agent reactive group and a Reducing Agent reactive group. (noaa.gov)
  • But the worst variety, nerve agents, were never deployed in the world wars , though Nazi scientists developed the first generation of these compounds. (iflscience.com)
  • This research brief outlines assistance that RAND provided to the OSAGWI in investigating the health effects of eight areas of possible causes of illness: infectious diseases, pyridostigmine bromide, immunizations, wartime stress, chemical and biological warfare agents, oil well fires, depleted uranium, and pesticides. (rand.org)
  • This research brief outlines RAND's investigations into the health effects of infectious diseases, pyridostigmine bromide (PB), immunizations, wartime stress, chemical warfare and biological warfare (CW/BW) agents, oil well fires, depleted uranium (DU), and pesticides. (rand.org)
  • This category caused by unspecifi ed agents, including known agents with includes infectious agents (e.g. (cdc.gov)
  • Analysis of existing international instruments, supported by the outcome of consultations with the relevant international organizations, led to the conclusion that it would be difficult to draw a sharp line between events caused by infectious agents and those caused by other agents. (who.int)
  • Another, more dangerous class of explosives are those where the oxidizing agent and reducing agent are actually different parts of the same compound. (noaa.gov)
  • The company's business area is designing, manufacturing and selling chemical products that are widely used in such fields and sectors as: mining, railways, firefighting, industry, household and utility chemicals and others. (chemika.pl)
  • Phenol was the first widely used chemical antiseptic and disinfectant. (brainkart.com)
  • Some kinds of chemical accidents or attacks may make going outdoors dangerous. (cdc.gov)
  • The second, and main, concern is the presence, in the chemical and radionuclear fields, of several international instruments and organizations dealing with accidents and other forms of pollution that result in the 1 Document IGWG/IHR/Working paper/12.2003. (who.int)
  • For example, accidents leading to chemical marine pollution fall under several international agreements and the competence of IMO, which has the authority to coordinate the international response thereto. (who.int)
  • However, the same cannot be said with regard to land-based chemical accidents, for which there is no comparable legal framework. (who.int)
  • According to the report, Solvent represented the most popular type of metal cleaning chemicals. (imarcgroup.com)
  • Efka PU 4010 can be used as a universal dispersing agent in all solvent based coatings from high performance industrial coatings to common decorative coatings. (kingchemglobal.com)
  • It can also be used as a universal dispersing agent in solvent based colorants. (kingchemglobal.com)
  • This toxic chemical contained reactive chlorine. (rt.com)
  • Reactive groups are categories of chemicals that typically react in similar ways because they are similar in their chemical structure. (noaa.gov)
  • Each substance with a chemical datasheet has been assigned to one or more reactive groups, and CAMEO Chemicals uses the reactive group assignments to make its reactivity predictions. (noaa.gov)
  • If you can't find a chemical in the database--but you know what reactive group it belongs in--you can add the reactive group to MyChemicals instead in order to see the reactivity predictions. (noaa.gov)
  • There are 174 chemical datasheets assigned to this reactive group. (noaa.gov)
  • Using advanced laboratory science and innovative techniques, CDC scientists identified diethylene glycol (DEG), a chemical that is used in antifreeze, in cough syrup taken by victims of the poisoning. (cdc.gov)
  • Poisoning by these nerve agents leads to an accumulation of acetylcholine at the nerve axon, producing a perpetual excited state in the nerve (e.g. constant muscle contraction). (wikipedia.org)
  • Within 24 hours of arrival in the lab, using the Rapid Toxic Screen, the chemical agent of concern can be identified. (cdc.gov)
  • Overview of Chemical-Warfare Agents Chemical weapons are developed by governments for wartime use and include Toxic agents (intended to cause serious injury or death) Incapacitating agents (intended to cause only temporary, non-life-threatening. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In the June 7 Defense Department IG report, titled, "The Army Needs to Improve Controls Over Chemical Surety Materials," leaders from the deputy assistant secretary of defense for chemical and biological defense down to the commander of Dugway Proving Ground simultaneously agreed with some of the IG's findings while also disagreeing with some of the report's recommendations. (armytimes.com)
  • Project 112/ Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) Dept. of Defense tested biological and chemical warfare agents, by spraying several U.S. ships while 6,000 thousand of U.S. military personnel were aboard the ships. (ahrp.org)
  • Biotreatment is the processing of organic waste, in this case chemical agent breakdown products, using living organisms such as bacteria, fungi or protozoa. (cdc.gov)
  • Under these conditions, the organic chemical agent waste products are destroyed through an oxidation process. (cdc.gov)
  • Nowadays, metal cleaning chemicals are gaining traction as they are essential to several manufacturing processes and play a vital role in ensuring the durability and quality of metal products. (imarcgroup.com)
  • The DoD's neutralization process breaks down chemical agent with hot water and a caustic compound. (cdc.gov)
  • by Compendium of Chemical Warfare problem organizes globally always found and is some huge website, Share and content diseases. (tower-sh.de)
  • Prominent & Leading Manufacturer from Surat, we offer Blooming Agent. (indiamart.com)
  • People with an initially noisy chest and prominent symptoms were likely exposed to a type 1 agent. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Within the last several decades, terrorists have deployed chemical weapons against civilian populations. (medscape.com)
  • Concrete release agent can also be called concrete isolation agent (or release lubricant). (mis-asia.com)
  • Water-based concrete release agents: Concrete isolation agent, or concrete release lubricant TR-ARA also refers to it as concrete release agent. (mis-asia.com)
  • MS-122AD was developed as an efficient, economical and universal release agent and dry lubricant. (miller-stephenson.com)
  • The global metal cleaning chemicals market size reached US$ 15.5 Billion in 2023. (imarcgroup.com)
  • The Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) portal sponsored by the US Department of Health & Human Services provides comprehensive information on chemical incident management, including specific information for first responders, hospital providers, and incident preparedness, as well as the general public . (medscape.com)
  • Since the beginning of the Mosul crisis, WHO has been taking concrete steps to ensure preparedness for the potential use of chemical weapons, together with local health authorities. (who.int)
  • At the initial stage of its operation, it specialized in wholesaling household and industrial chemicals. (chemika.pl)
  • Another goal of our operation is modernizing and introducing chemicals used in different industrial sectors as well as everyday life. (chemika.pl)
  • i NAS is an intelligent nano array sensor which can simultaneously detect multiple chemical warfare agents (CWA's) and toxic industrial chemicals (TIC's). (controlequipment.com.au)
  • Chemical threat agents can be poisonous vapors, aerosols, liquids or solids that have toxic effects on people. (cdc.gov)
  • WASHINGTON - In late August, the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) hosted a four-day workshop titled, 2022 Emerging Chemical Threat Agent Workshop: An Interagency Deep Dive, bringing together over 150 experts and participants from across the federal government, state and local first responder communities, and international partners. (dhs.gov)
  • With chemical agents being relatively easy and inexpensive to obtain, a chemical attack is an ever present threat in today's society. (controlequipment.com.au)
  • Presently, there are over 50 different types of chemicals developed to be primarily used as chemical weapons (Bentley, 2018). (ivoryresearch.com)
  • As multiple states began using chemical weapons, this resulted in the banning of some of them (Bentley, 2018). (ivoryresearch.com)
  • They often are referred to as one-dimensional sensors that can only confirm what is already believed to be present, but cannot provide information about other possible harmful agents (1,5). (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • The usefulness of establishing OELs for potentially harmful agents in the working environment has been demonstrated repeatedly since their inception (3, 5, 6). (cdc.gov)
  • For most chemical events, this room should be as high in the structure as possible to avoid vapors (gases) that sink. (cdc.gov)
  • Additional episodes of illness were agent-specifi c illnesses cannot be estimated. (cdc.gov)
  • Edward- insuffi cient data to estimate agent-specifi c illness, known siella spp. (cdc.gov)
  • Fourth, agents of foodborne illness continue to borne illness were caused by unspecifi ed agents, resulting be discovered. (cdc.gov)
  • Foodborne diseases are a major cause of illness and tained quickly, no causative agent can be identifi ed ( 6 , 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Additional agents of foodborne illness probably remain un- timated that each year, major known pathogens acquired described ( 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • An additional proportion of foodborne illness is prob- acute gastroenteritis but that were not included in our es- ably caused by a heterogeneous group of less understood timate of foodborne illness caused by 31 major known agents. (cdc.gov)
  • To estimate the extent of food- borne illness caused by unspecifi ed agents, we estimated the number of acute gastroenteritis illnesses, hospitaliza- tions, and deaths and subtracted the estimated number of acute gastroenteritis illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths caused by 24 major known pathogens that typically or often cause diarrhea or vomiting (Figure 1). (cdc.gov)
  • Esti- mates of illness were not made for unspecifi ed agents that do not typically result in acute gastroenteritis. (cdc.gov)