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Advice from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on riot control agents in connection to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

ABSTRACT: Compounds that cause powerful sensory irritation to humans were reviewed by the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in response to requests in 2014 and 2017 by the OPCW Director-General to advise which riot control agents (RCAs) might be subject to declaration under the Chemical Weapons Convention (the "Convention"). The chemical and toxicological properties of 60 chemicals identified from a survey by the OPCW of RCAs that had been researched or were available for purchase, and additional chemicals recognised by the SAB as having potential RCA applications, were considered. Only 17 of the 60 chemicals met the definition of a RCA under the Convention. These findings were provided to the States Parties of the Convention to inform the implementation of obligations pertaining to RCAs under this international chemical disarmament and non-proliferation treaty.

SUBMITTER: Timperley CM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092081 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Advice from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on riot control agents in connection to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Timperley Christopher M CM Forman Jonathan E JE Åas Pal P Abdollahi Mohammad M Benachour Djafer D Al-Amri Abdullah Saeed AS Baulig Augustin A Becker-Arnold Renate R Borrett Veronica V Cariño Flerida A FA Curty Christophe C Gonzalez David D Geist Michael M Kane William W Kovarik Zrinka Z Martínez-Álvarez Roberto R Mikulak Robert R Fusaro Mourão Nicia Maria NM Neffe Slawomir S De Souza Nogueira Evandro E Ramasami Ponnadurai P Raza Syed K SK Rubaylo Valentin V Saeed Ahmed E M AEM Takeuchi Koji K Tang Cheng C Trifirò Ferruccio F Mauritz van Straten Francois F Suárez Alejandra G AG Waqar Farhat F Vanninen Paula S PS Zafar-Uz-Zaman Mohammad M Vučinić Slavica S Zaitsev Volodymyr V Zina Mongia Saïd MS Holen Stian S Izzati Fauzia Nurul FN

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Compounds that cause powerful sensory irritation to humans were reviewed by the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in response to requests in 2014 and 2017 by the OPCW Director-General to advise which riot control agents (RCAs) might be subject to declaration under the Chemical Weapons Convention (the "Convention"). The chemical and toxicological properties of 60 chemicals identified from a survey by the OPCW of RCAs that had been r ...[more]

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