Review of Acute Human-Toxicity Estimates for Selected Chemical-Warfare Agents

by Committee on Toxicology

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309057493
• ISBN13: 9780309057493
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 100 Pages