Military facility

Heavy metals Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, Hg, Cr Application of animal manure (D) Military facilities (P) Gasoline stations (P) Sawmills and wood preservation sites (P) Mining and metallurgical industry (P,D) 37.3 [21, 42]... 

Nitroaromatics TNT, nitrobenzene, nitrophenols, atrazine Manufacture of aniline, dyes, drugs (P,D) Explosive industry, military facilities (P, D) Manufacture of pesticides and herbicides (D) C [46]... 

It is well known that uncontrolled chemical waste, including waste storage and treatment facilities, former industrial and agricultural enterprises and military facilities can contribute to health and environmental problems. 

Production, Import/Export, Use, Release, and Disposal. Hexachloroethane is not manufactured for commercial distribution in the United States (Gordon et al. 1991 IARC 1979 Santodonato et al. 1985). However, current production as a by-product and import information are not available. Current uses of this chemical and the amounts consumed by each use, including militaiy uses, were not located. This information would be helpful in assessing potential exposure to workers and the general population. The amount of the chemical disposed of by industrial facilities was reported to EPA (TRI93 1995), but information on quantities of hexachloroethane-containing wastes disposed of by military facilities was not located. Rotary kiln or fluidized bed incineration are acceptable methods for disposal of waste containing hexachloroethane (HSDB 1995). 

There was a need to develop field-portable, AC power independent, rugged sample collection and TLC kits that are cost-effective, and efficient for analyzing very large numbers of propellant samples per day for stabilizers and explosives on-site at military facilities. 

U.S. airbase soldiers also carried battle dressings and 500 mL lactated Ringer s solution (for fluid replacement) [4]. Specialist medical trained soldiers (corpsmen) carried standard trauma packs, first aid kits and antibiotics, with the expectation that the seriously injured would be evacuated directly to a military facility by helicopter. 

F.3 Testing of Procedures on Simulated Military Facility Samples, Flelsinki, 1992. 

M. Ratio, F. International Inter-Laboratory Comparison (Round-Robin) Test for the Verification of Chemical Disarmament. F.l Testing of Existing Procedures, 1990 F.2. Testing of Procedures on Simulated Industry Samples, 1991 F.3. Testing of Procedures on Simulated Military Facility... 

Most of the information on the health effects of tetryl is from studies on workers employed in military facilities during World War I and World War II. These workers were involved in the production, use, packing, or loading of tetryl. The levels of tetryl in air at these facilities were often not measured. 

Recent cases in which the barriers to the transfer of expertise have been evaded reveal that formal and government-approved contacts provide significant opportunities for diversion. These government-approved contacts have been much more common in state-to-state relationships. However, there was a brief period in the early 1990s when Aum Shinrikyo had extensive contacts with Russian politicians and personnel at scientific and military facilities. ... 

At the conclusion of the negotiation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1992, this treaty was heralded as a major breakthrough in multilateral arms control. It was the first comprehensively verifiable multilateral treaty that completely banned an entire class of weapons, and went further than any previous treaty in the depth, extent and intrusiveness of its verification. Verification under the CWC includes compulsory national declarations about relevant industrial and military activities, destruction of chemical weapons within a time frame with intrusive verification, and a regime of routine inspections of declared industrial and military facilities. Additional features are the possibility of a challenge inspection, whereby a State Party can request an inspection of any site in another State Party at short notice, and provisions for the investigation of alleged use of chemical weapons. 

There is a fast lane for new drug approvals if the product is already in at least one of the following jurisdictions the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Sweden, or Australia. Approxmately 85% (by value) of pharmaceuticals go through the nearly 3,000 community pharmacies. Yet, approxmately 80% of the population rely on the public sector for drugs, received through clinics, hospitals, primary care posts, or military facilities. Although there is a 20-year patent period of exclusivity/protection, the parallel imports option effectively defeats this protection. 

As of 1996, the U.S. Army had located 168 potential CWM burial sites at 63 locations (primarily current or former military facilities) in 31 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia (U.S. Army, 1996).5 They include sites with CAIS only, sites with small quantities of materiel with and without associated explosives, and sites with large quantities of materiel with and without explosives. The... 

Former Military Facilities should have been properly remediated to remove or destroy all hazardous materials. However, it may be possible that waste may have been buried or dumped without proper controls. 

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