@article{ref1,
title="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",
journal="RSC advances",
year="2018",
author="Timperley, Christopher M. and Forman, Jonathan E. and Aas, Pal and Abdollahi, Mohammad and Benachour, Djafer and Al-Amri, Abdullah Saeed and Baulig, Augustin and Becker-Arnold, Renate and Borrett, Veronica and Cariño, Flerida A. and Curty, Christophe and Gonzalez, David and Geist, Michael and Kane, William and Kovarik, Zrinka and Martínez-Álvarez, Roberto and Mikulak, Robert and Fusaro Mourão, Nicia Maria and Neffe, Slawomir and De Souza Nogueira, Evandro and Ramasami, Ponnadurai and Raza, Syed K. and Rubaylo, Valentin and Saeed, Ahmed E. M. and Takeuchi, Koji and Tang, Cheng and Trifirò, Ferruccio and Mauritz van Straten, Francois and Suárez, Alejandra G. and Waqar, Farhat and Vanninen, Paula S. and Zafar-Uz-Zaman, Mohammad and Vucinić, Slavica and Zaitsev, Volodymyr and Zina, Mongia Saïd and Holen, Stian and Izzati, Fauzia Nurul",
volume="8",
number="73",
pages="41731-41739",
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 &quot;Convention&quot;). 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2046-2069",
doi="10.1039/c8ra08273a",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ra08273a"
}