Towelettes decontamination

Decontamination and Treatment Administer oxygen and remove the animal from the toxic environment. For ocular exposures, flush eyes with copious amounts of tepid 0.9% saline or water for at least 15 min. Wash all animals three times with either soap and water, dilute bleach solution (1 10 with water), ethanol, or a tincture of green soap (Cancio, 1993). Towelettes impregnated with alkaline chloramine and phenol are used by the mihtary (M291 Skin Decontaminating Kit, Rohm and Haas). 

M258A1, decontamination kit, personal Consists of foil-packaged pairs of towelettes in a plastic carrying case I. Water, phenol, NaOH, ethanol and ammonia II. Water, ethanol, chloramine-B and ZnCl2 Skin and individual equipment... 

The capability of the OPH fabric to hydrolyze a variety of organophosphate neurotoxins has been clearly demonstrated. These towelettes hydrolyze practical quantities of neurotoxic pesticides and chemical nerve agents. An OPH towelette that is 10 cm X 10 cm and four layers thick would yield a total of 400 cm. Data from Table II shows that crude OPH coupled to mono-gly cotton can hydrolyze 0.12 mg paraoxon/min/cm of fabric. Therefore, a decontamination towelette, of the above dimensions, could hydrolyze 48 mg of paraoxon per minute. Even modest optimization of the towelette would likely produce a fabric that can decontaminate gram quantities of agent in just a few minutes. Based on absorbency data for cotton (not shown), a flannel towelette of the above dimensions could absorb up to 35 milliliters of fluid. 

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