TY - JOUR
T1 - 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
AU - Timperley, Christopher M.
AU - Forman, Jonathan E.
AU - Åas, Pal
AU - Abdollahi, Mohammad
AU - Benachour, Djafer
AU - Al-Amri, Abdullah Saeed
AU - Baulig, Augustin
AU - Becker-Arnold, Renate
AU - Borrett, Veronica
AU - Cariño, Flerida A.
AU - Curty, Christophe
AU - Gonzalez, David
AU - Geist, Michael
AU - Kane, William
AU - Kovarik, Zrinka
AU - Martínez-Álvarez, Roberto
AU - Mikulak, Robert
AU - Fusaro Mourão, Nicia Maria
AU - Neffe, Slawomir
AU - De Souza Nogueira, Evandro
AU - Ramasami, Ponnadurai
AU - Raza, Syed K.
AU - Rubaylo, Valentin
AU - Saeed, Ahmed E.M.
AU - Takeuchi, Koji
AU - Tang, Cheng
AU - Trifirò, Ferruccio
AU - Mauritz Van Straten, Francois
AU - Suárez, Alejandra G.
AU - Waqar, Farhat
AU - Vanninen, Paula S.
AU - Zafar-Uz-Zaman, Mohammad
AU - Vučinić, Slavica
AU - Zaitsev, Volodymyr
AU - Zina, Mongia Saïd
AU - Holen, Stian
AU - Izzati, Fauzia Nurul
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85058961543
U2 - 10.1039/c8ra08273a
DO - 10.1039/c8ra08273a
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85058961543
SN - 2046-2069
VL - 8
SP - 41731
EP - 41739
JO - RSC Advances
JF - RSC Advances
IS - 73
ER -