Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Address Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), 5183 Blackhawk Road Bldg E-5101 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424 USA Phone +1 410 436 4345 (DSN 584 4345)... 

SBCCOM Operations — The U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), ATTN AMSSB-RCB-RS, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21010-5424. Tel. 410-436-2148 (twenty-four-hour emergency number). 

The Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), Department of the Army believes that the data contained herein are actual and are the results of the tests conducted by ECBC experts. The data are not to be taken as a warranty or representation for which the Department of the Army or ECBC assumes legal responsibility. They are offered solely for consideration. Any use of this data and information contained in this MSDS must be determined by the user to be in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations. 

Abercrombie, P.L. (2003). Physical property data review of selected chemical agents and related compounds Updating Field Manual 3-9 (FM 3-9). ECBC-TR-294. Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. 

Benton, B.J., Sommerville, D.R., Scotto, J., Burnett, D.C., Gaviola, B.I., Crosier, R.B., Jakubowski, E.M., Jr. et al. (2005). Low-level effects of VX vapor exposure on pupil size and cholinesterase levels in rats. Technical Report ECBC TR-428, US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. 

The toxicity associated with SM is quite profound. The Army s Chemical Defense Equipment Process Action Team estimated in 1994 that a 900 mg-min/m SM vapor exposure would be lethal in 2-10 min, based on animal studies (National Research Council Review, 1997). Fortunately, in the battlefield, lethality has been limited. Only 1-3% of exposed soldiers died from SM exposure after WWI, and mortality mostly was not a direct consequence of SM, but rather the indirect effect of secondary respiratory infections. The 1999 Material Safety Data Sheet, put out by the US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, USA Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, has estimated the LD50 of a skin exposure to sullur mustard as lOOmg/kg. This roughly translates into as little as 7 ml of neat SM (i.e. 8.9 g) spread over the skin resulting in the death of a 80 kg adult (Department of the Army, MSDS, 1999). The cornea, of course, is more sensitive than the skin. Below we review three chief toxic effects of severe SM exposure to the cornea. 

EDWARD M. JAKUBOWSKI US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, AMSRD-ECB-RT-TN, 5183 Black Hawk RD, APG, MD 21010-5424, USA... 

VX was discovered by British scientists in 1952. The British traded the discovery with the U.S. Army in 1953 for information on thermonuclear weapons and a systematic investigation of these new compounds was begun at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. In 1955, the compounds were designated V-Class (Venomous). 

Private conversation Janet Jensen, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. 

Edgewood Chemical Biological Center AMSRD-ECP-RT-DP(Building E3330/56)... 

U.S.Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center AMSRD-ECB-ENP 5183 Blackhawk Road... 

Janet Jensen, U S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center Dwight Woolard, U.S. Army Research Office... 

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