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Advice on Chemical Weapons Sample Stability and Storage Provided by the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to Increase Investigative Capabilities Worldwide Publisher Pubmed



Timperley CM1 ; Forman JE28 ; Abdollahi M2 ; Alamri AS3 ; Alonso IP4 ; Baulig A5 ; Borrett V6 ; Carino FA7 ; Curty C8 ; Berrutti DG9 ; Kovarik Z10 ; Martinezalvarez R11 ; Mikulak R12 ; Mourao NMF13 Show All Authors
Authors
  1. Timperley CM1
  2. Forman JE28
  3. Abdollahi M2
  4. Alamri AS3
  5. Alonso IP4
  6. Baulig A5
  7. Borrett V6
  8. Carino FA7
  9. Curty C8
  10. Berrutti DG9
  11. Kovarik Z10
  12. Martinezalvarez R11
  13. Mikulak R12
  14. Mourao NMF13
  15. Ponnadurai R14
  16. Neffe S15
  17. Raza SK16
  18. Rubaylo V17
  19. Takeuchi K18
  20. Tang C19
  21. Trifiro F20
  22. Van Straten FM21
  23. Vanninen PS22
  24. Zaitsev V23
  25. Waqar F24
  26. Zina MS25
  27. Blum MM26
  28. Gregg H26
  29. Fischer E27
  30. Sun S27
  31. Yang P27
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Authors Affiliations
  1. 1. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
  2. 2. The Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
  3. 3. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  4. 4. University of Havana, Havana, Cuba
  5. 5. Secretariat General de la Defense et de la Securite Nationale (SGDSN), Paris, France
  6. 6. BAI Scientific, Melbourne, and Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
  7. 7. University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
  8. 8. Spiez Laboratory, Spiez, Switzerland
  9. 9. Facultad de Quimica, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
  10. 10. Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia
  11. 11. Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
  12. 12. United States Department of State, United States
  13. 13. Brazilian Chemical Industry, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  14. 14. Computational Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Reduit, 80837, Mauritius
  15. 15. Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
  16. 16. Institute of Pesticides Formulation Technology (IPFT), Gurugram, Haryana, India
  17. 17. State Scientific Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology (GosNIIOKhT), Moscow, Russian Federation
  18. 18. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
  19. 19. Office for the Disposal of Japanese Abandoned Chemical Weapons, Ministry of National Defence, China
  20. 20. Department of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna, Italy
  21. 21. South African Nuclear Energy Corporation SOC Ltd., Pretoria, South Africa
  22. 22. VERIFIN, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
  23. 23. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
  24. 24. Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Pakistan
  25. 25. Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (FST), Tunis, Tunisia
  26. 26. OPCW Laboratory, Rijswijk, Netherlands
  27. 27. OPCW Headquarters, The Hague, Netherlands
  28. 28. Secretary to the Scientific Advisory Board and Science Policy Adviser, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands

Source: Talanta Published:2018


Abstract

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has provided advice on the long-term storage and stability of samples collected in the context of chemical weapons investigations. The information they compiled and reviewed is beneficial to all laboratories that carry out analysis of samples related to chemical warfare agents and is described herein. The preparation of this report was undertaken on request from the OPCW Director-General. The main degradation products for chemicals on the Schedules in the Annex on Chemicals of the Chemical Weapons Convention are tabulated. The expertise of the 25 scientists comprising the SAB, a review of the scientific literature on environmental and biomedical sample analysis, and answers to a questionnaire from chemists of nine OPCW Designated Laboratories, were drawn upon to provide the advice. Ten recommendations to ensure the long-term storage and stability of samples collected in relation to the potential use of chemical weapons were provided and are repeated here for the consideration of all laboratories worldwide. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
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