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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 Publisher



Timperley CM1 ; Forman JE2 ; Aas P3 ; Abdollahi M4 ; Benachour D5 ; Alamri AS6 ; Baulig A7 ; Beckerarnold R8 ; Borrett V9, 10 ; Carino FA11 ; Curty C12 ; Gonzalez D13 ; Geist M8 ; Kane W14 Show All Authors
Authors
  1. Timperley CM1
  2. Forman JE2
  3. Aas P3
  4. Abdollahi M4
  5. Benachour D5
  6. Alamri AS6
  7. Baulig A7
  8. Beckerarnold R8
  9. Borrett V9, 10
  10. Carino FA11
  11. Curty C12
  12. Gonzalez D13
  13. Geist M8
  14. Kane W14
  15. Kovarik Z15
  16. Martinezalvarez R16
  17. Mikulak R17
  18. Fusaro Mourao NM18
  19. Neffe S19
  20. De Souza Nogueira E20
  21. Ramasami P21
  22. Raza SK22
  23. Rubaylo V23
  24. Saeed AEM24
  25. Takeuchi K25
  26. Tang C26
  27. Trifiro F27
  28. Mauritz Van Straten F28
  29. Suarez AG29
  30. Waqar F30
  31. Vanninen PS31
  32. Zafaruzzaman M32
  33. Vucinic S33
  34. Zaitsev V34, 35
  35. Zina MS36
  36. Holen S37
  37. Izzati FN38
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Authors Affiliations
  1. 1. OPCW Scientific Advisory Board Department, 2015-2018, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
  2. 2. Secretary to the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board and Science Policy Adviser, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands
  3. 3. Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) Kjeller, Norway
  4. 4. Toxicology and Diseases Group, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (TIPS), Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  5. 5. LMPMP, Faculty of Technology, Ferhat Abbas University, Setif-1, Algeria
  6. 6. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  7. 7. Secretariat General de la Defense et de la Securite Nationale, Paris, France
  8. 8. BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany
  9. 9. BAI Scientific, Melbourne, Australia
  10. 10. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  11. 11. Institute of Chemistry, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
  12. 12. Spiez Laboratory, Spiez, Switzerland
  13. 13. Facultad de Quimica, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
  14. 14. Consultant to Monsanto Company, LA, United States
  15. 15. Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia
  16. 16. Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
  17. 17. United States Department of State, Washington, DC, United States
  18. 18. ABIQUIM, Brazilian Chemical Industry Association, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  19. 19. Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
  20. 20. Brazilian Ministry of Science Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC), Brazilia, Brazil
  21. 21. Computational Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Reduit, 80837, Mauritius
  22. 22. Institute of Pesticides Formulation Technology (IPFT), Gurugram, Haryana, India
  23. 23. State Scientific Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology (GosNIIOKhT), Moscow, Russian Federation
  24. 24. Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan
  25. 25. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan
  26. 26. OPCW Scientific Advisory Board Vice-Department, 2015-2018, Office for the Disposal of Japanese Abandoned Chemical Weapons, Ministry of National Defence, Beijing, China
  27. 27. Department of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  28. 28. South African Nuclear Energy Corporation SOC Ltd., Pretoria, South Africa
  29. 29. Scientific Advisory Board Department, 2014, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Rosario, Argentina
  30. 30. Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan
  31. 31. VERIFIN, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  32. 32. National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM), Islamabad, Pakistan
  33. 33. National Poison Control Centre, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia
  34. 34. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
  35. 35. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  36. 36. Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (FST), Tunis, Tunisia
  37. 37. Secretary to the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board, 2011-2015, OPCW, The Hague, Netherlands
  38. 38. Intern at the OPCW, The Hague, Netherlands

Source: RSC Advances Published:2018


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. © 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry.