Biological agents toxins

The use of toxins in the control of insect populations should be approached with great care. Chemical interactions, mammalian toxicity, and nonreversibility are important considerations before involving any toxic treatment. Zycherman and Schrock (5) provide a greater understanding of deleterious biological agents, toxins, and methods of treatment. 

The protective masks issued to members of the U.S. armed forces protect the individual s face, eyes, and respiratory tract from field concentrations of chemical-biological agents, toxins, and radioactive fallout particles. Several critical steps must be taken to ensure that an assigned mask will function properly in a toxic chemical environment ... 

Effects of indoor air pollutants on humans are essentially the same as those described in Chapter 7. However, there can be some additional pollutant exposures in the indoor environment that are not common in the ambient setting. From the listing in Table 23-1, radon exposures indoors present a radiation hazard for the development of lung cancer. Environmental tobacco smoke has been found to cause lung cancer and other respiratory diseases. Biological agents such as molds and other toxins may be a more likely exposure hazard indoors than outside. 

Possession, use, and transfer of biological agents and toxins Organisms and vectors... 

Department of Agriculture. 9 CFR Part 121—"Possession, Use, and Transfer of Biological Agents and Toxins." 2005. 

Divides agents based on the common military groupings of chemical, biological, and toxin... 

Unheard of amounts of federal funds is going into the construction of biocontainment laboratories, or hot labs, where the deadliest biological agents and potential bioweapons can be studied, researched and analyzed. These new hot labs would be mainly Biosafety Level 4 and Biosafety Level 3 laboratories dealing with infectious agents and toxins, the worst kind as far as danger and safety is concerned. 

Biological Agents BACTERIA (Anthrax, Brucellosis, Cholera, Plague, Tularemia). VIRUSES (Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Rift Valley Fever, Smallpox, Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (VEE), Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (Ebola)). TOXINS (Botulinum, Ricin, Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B (SEB), Trichothecene Mycotoxins/T-2). 

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