Review of Acute Human-Toxicity Estimates for Selected Chemical-Warfare Agents (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Department of the Army requested that the National Research Council (NRC) independently review the CDEPAT report entitled Review of Existing Toxicity Data and Human Estimates for Selected Chemical Agents and Recommended Human Toxicity Estimates for Defending the Soldier.
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It should be noted that the human-toxicity estimates for the CW agents were proposed for healthy adult male soldiers only. They must not be used for the general population.
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· {CtSo is the exposure to a vapor causing incapacitation in 50% of a given population and is expressed as the product of c x t in mg-min/m3, where c x t is not necessarily a constant. LDso is the acute dose of a liquid agent causing lethality in 50% of a given population and is expressed in milligrams per kilogram of body weight (mg/kg)
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