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
Scientific article
2018
Christopher M. Timperley
Jonathan E. Forman
Pål Aas
Mohammad Abdollahi
Djafer Benachour
Abdullah Saeed Al-Amri
Augustin Baulig
Renate Becker-Arnold
Veronica Borrett
Flerida A. Cariño
Christophe Curty
David Gonzalez
Michael Geist
William Kane
Zrinka Kovarik
Roberto Martínez-Álvarez
Robert Mikulak
Nicia Maria Fusaro Mourão
Slawomir Neffe
Evandro De Souza Nogueira
Ponnadurai Ramasami
Syed K. Raza
Valentin Rubaylo
Ahmed E.M. Saeed
Koji Takeuchi
Cheng Tang
Ferruccio Trifirò
François Mauritz van Straten
Alejandra G. Suárez
Farhat Waqar
Paula S. Vanninen
Mohammad Zafar-Uz-Zaman
Slavica Vucinic
Volodymyr Zaitsev
Mongia Said Zina
Stian Holen
Fauzia Nurul Izzati
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.
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Timperley, Christopher M.; Forman, Jonathan E.; Aas, Pål; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Benachour, Djafer; Al-Amri, Abdullah Saeed; Baulig, Augustin; Becker-Arnold, Renate; Borrett, Veronica; Cariño, Flerida A.; Curty, Christophe; Gonzalez, David; Geist, Michael; Kane, William; Kovarik, Zrinka; Martínez-Álvarez, Roberto; Mikulak, Robert; Fusaro Mourão, Nicia Maria; Neffe, Slawomir; De Souza Nogueira, Evandro; Ramasami, Ponnadurai; Raza, Syed K.; Rubaylo, Valentin; Saeed, Ahmed E.M.; Takeuchi, Koji; Tang, Cheng; Trifirò, Ferruccio; Mauritz van Straten, François; Suárez, Alejandra G.; Waqar, Farhat; Vanninen, Paula S.; Zafar-Uz-Zaman, Mohammad; Vucinic, Slavica; Zaitsev, Volodymyr; Zina, Mongia Said; Holen, Stian; Izzati, Fauzia Nurul.
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. RSC Advances 2018 ;Volum 8.(73) s. 41731-41739
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