Food aerosols

Roberts G, Golder N, Lack G. 2002. Bronchial challenges with aerosolized food in asthmatic, food-allergic children. Allergy 57(8) 713—717. 

An elevated body temperature was observed in rats exposed to 100 mg/m3 DNOC for 4 hours (King and Harvey 1953a). The body temperature was still elevated 20 hours after the animals were removed from DNOC aerosols. Food and water consumption was reduced during the exposure period, but was probably due to the lethargic condition of the rats (see Section 2.2.1.4). 

Different methods of delivery of nanotechnology-enabled CB weapons wiU likely require different countermeasures. Delivery via aerosol, food, water, or skin will potentially elicit different physiological and biological reactions and wiU require different treatments. For example, prions and other proteins may be able to attach to nanoenabled aerosol particles that have the capability to cross the blood-brain barrier. Research to understand delivery mechanisms for prions, levels of infectious doses, and overall time dependence is needed. 

Soaps and detergents (surfactants) Emulsifiers and stabilizers (nonsurfactant) Herbicides and pesticides Fabric Softeners Latex paints Aerosols Foods, (ice cream, butter, mayonnaise, etc.) Cosmetics and topical ointments Pharmaceuticals Inks Lacquers, oil-based paints Oil and gas additives Adhesives... 

While the high-casualty threat is still by aerosol, food (unlikely water) contamination could also cause casualties. 

Considerable developmental effort is being devoted to aerosol formulations using the compressed gases given in Table 4. These propellants are used in some food and industrial aerosols. Carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, which tend to be more soluble, are often preferred. When some of the compressed gas dissolves in the product concentrate, there is partial replenishment of the headspace as the gas is expelled. Hence, the greater the gas solubiUty, the more gas is available to maintain the initial conditions. 

A small but important use of ammonium nitrate is in the production of nitrous oxide during the 1980s consumption for this purpose averaged about 30,000 t. The gas is generated by controlled heating of ammonium nitrate above 200°C. Nitrous oxide is used primarily as an anesthetic and as an aerosol propellant for food products (see Anesthetics Aerosols). 

In addition to the packaging of foods and beverages in regular containers, a large quantity of tinplate is used in the form of aerosol containers for cosmetics, paint, insecticides, poHshes, and other products. Decorative trays, Hthographed boxes, and containers of unusual shape are additional oudets for tinplate. 

Noroviruses greater than 5 yr Variable 12-24 hours fecal-oral, food, aerosol Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, headache, fever, chills, myalgia... 

Yoshimitsu Hirao and C. C. Patterson. Lead Aerosol Pollution in the High Sierra Overrides Natural Mechanisms Which Exclude Lead from a Food Chain. Science. 184 (May 31, 1974) 989-992. 

The NO + 03 chemiluminescent reaction [Reactions (1-3)] is utilized in two commercially available GC detectors, the TEA detector, manufactured by Thermal Electric Corporation (Saddle Brook, NJ), and two nitrogen-selective detectors, manufactured by Thermal Electric Corporation and Antek Instruments, respectively. The TEA detector provides a highly sensitive and selective means of analyzing samples for A-nitrosamines, many of which are known carcinogens. These compounds can be found in such diverse matrices as foods, cosmetics, tobacco products, and environmental samples of soil and water. The TEA detector can also be used to quantify nitroaromatics. This class of compounds includes many explosives and various reactive intermediates used in the chemical industry [121]. Several nitroaromatics are known carcinogens, and are found as environmental contaminants. They have been repeatedly identified in organic aerosol particles, formed from the reaction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with atmospheric nitric acid at the particle surface [122-124], The TEA detector is extremely selective, which aids analyses in complex matrices, but also severely limits the number of potential applications for the detector [125-127],... 

Probable Form of Dissemination Sabotage of food/water supply or aerosol. 

Probable Form of Dissemination Aerosol sabotage of the food supply. Brucellosis is a hindrance bacteria symptoms can take months to appear, and deaths are few and far between even without medical care. 

Probable Form of Dissemination Aerosol sabotage of food supply. 

Field First Aid In a terrorist attack with Q fever, the primary threat is dissemination of aerosol, or contamination of food. Acute Q fever can appear to develop as an undifferentiated febrile illness, as an atypical pneumonia, or as a rapidly progressive pneumonia. 

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