Occupational Health and Workplace Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities (2001) / Chapter Skim
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5 Findings and Recommendations
5 Findings and Recommendations
Pages 29-31
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The Army should continue to pursue improvements in airborne agent monitoring, including improved ACAMS technology (for multiagent monitoring and lower false alarm rates) , and in methods for identifying interferents that cause false alarms.
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Established techniques and analytical measurement practices for detecting agent and/or agent degradation products in liquid-phase matrices or associated with solid materials are not sensitive or rapid enough to provide the near-real-time process control or waste materials screening required for worker protection. The current techniques for analyzing headspace may be inadequate for detecting agent or agent degradation products associated with spent activated carbon or other absorptive materials.
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Just as advancing technology can be expected to provide better workplace chemical monitoring techniques, rapidly advancing biotechnology can be expected to provide more sensitive and specific methods of measuring worker exposure to harmful substances. For instance, abducts of DNA and protein formed by carcinogens that are alkylating agents, such as sulfur mustard, can now be detected at very low levels of exposure.
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