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The following questions link
to resources that provide safety and health information relevant to sulfur
mustard in the workplace.
What is Sulfur Mustard?
- Facts About Sulfur Mustard.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Overview of sulfur mustard, including signs, symptoms,
and treatment.
- ToxFAQs for Sulfur Mustard.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Provides a fact sheet for the general public that answers the most frequently asked health questions about sulfur mustard.
Signs and Symptoms
Toxicological
Information
- Toxicological Profile for Sulfur Mustard. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
(2003, September). Provides useful information on health effects, chemical and physical properties, potential for human exposure,
analytical methods, and regulations.
Health Effects
- Toxicological Profile for Sulfur Mustard. 751 KB
PDF, 98 pages.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), (2003, September). Chapter 3
provides a detailed
discussion of the local and systemic health effects associated with various routes of exposure.
Airborne Exposure Limits
- Summary of Chemical Agent Air Exposure Values Table 1.
OSHA, (2004, August 3), 87 KB
PDF, 2 pages. Summarizes exiting airborne exposure limits including the
CDC Airborne Exposure Limits and the Acute Exposure Guideline Levels.
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CDC Interim Recommendations for Airborne Exposure Limits for Chemical Warfare
Agents H and HD (Sulfur Mustard). US Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Federal Register, Vol. 69, No. 85,
pp. 24164-2468, (2004, May 3). Also available as a 35 KB
PDF, 5 pages. Interim recommendations for worker
and general population airborne exposure limits for sulfur mustard associated
with agent stockpile demilitarization practices. These limits replace previously
recommended AELs originally issued in 1988 and are effective July 1, 2005. The
limits are interim pending improved characterization of carcinogenic potential
associated with sulfur mustard.
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Recommendations for Protecting Human Health and Safety Against Potential
Adverse Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Low-Doses of Agents GA, GB, VX,
Mustard Agents (H. HT, HD) and Lewisite (L). US Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Federal Register,
Vol. 53, No. 50, p. 8504, (1988, March 15).
- Health Effects Associated With Sulfur Mustard Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs).
US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine (CHPPM),
(2003, January), 143 KB
PDF, 2 pages.
Summarizes the types of health effects anticipated at each of the three AEGL
concentrations.
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Airborne Exposure Limits for Sulfur Mustard (HD): Occupational and General
Population Exposure Criteria. (2000, November). Evaluates the US Army
occupational and general population airborne exposure limits that were in effect
in 2000 and makes recommendations for new limits using current risk assessment
methodologies. This document is reference material for CDC’s interim AELs which
were published in May 2004.
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Basic Questions Regarding Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs) in Emergency Planning and Response.
US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine (CHPPM), (2003,
January), 143 KB
PDF, 1 page.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Regarding Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs) at CSEPP.
OSHA, (2003, January), 131 KB
PDF, 6 pages. Provides basic information on how AEGLs are set, what the different levels
are, and the meaning of some of the terms used with the AEGLs.
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AEGLs for Sulfur Mustard.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Public Exposure Guidelines.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). General list of the various types of exposure
guidelines and defines what the guidelines are and who they should be used for
(public vs. worker).
Environment
- Toxicological Profile for Sulfur Mustard. 255 KB
PDF, 18 pages.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), (2003, September). Chapter 6 summarizes the fate of sulfur mustard when released to the
environment
Decontamination
Levels
- Health Based Environmental Screening Levels for Chemical Warfare Agents (HBESLs).
US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine (CHPPM),
(1999, May 28),
1 MB PDF,
188 pages. Summarizes the
existing health-based screening levels for soil where ground water
contamination is not a consideration. These are pre-established environmental
screening levels for compounds that can aid in the assessment process by their
use as “action or no action” determinant criteria. They would be considered
for response to the question of "How clean is clean?"
Exposure
Levels and Other Media
- Summary of Multi-Media Chemical Agent Toxicity and Exposure Values Table 2.
OSHA, (2004, August 3), 206 KB
PDF, 2 pages. Summarizes existing water, soil, and waste exposure values.
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