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U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (1985). Eireamis and Explosives Tracing. Washington, DC Author. 

When used in products not licensed for drinking, ethanol usually occurs in the form of denatured alcohol, or specially denatured alcohol—alcohol that has been rendered unfit for drinking. You will often see SD alcohol mentioned on a label, sometimes followed by a number and letter, such as 40-B. This is the designation given by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to the denaturing method used. For example, SD-40 is ethanol denatured by adding tiny amounts of the most bitter-tasting substance known denatonium benzoate. 

Vizzard, William J. Shots in the Dark. Lanham, Md. Rowman Littlefield, 2000. A former agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms examines the back ound for gun control issues and surveys the key developments in gun control legislation starting with New York s Sullivan Law in 1911. Fie concludes with modest proposals for strengthening gun laws, believing that more radical measures would not be politically feasible. 

A list of basic explosive compounds is compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco, and Firearms [125]. This list indicates the wide array of compounds that are available to create an explosion. However, the most common explosive compounds are listed in Table 20.11 along with their chemical and common names, chemical formula, MW, and common use. In addition to these explosive compounds, several previously unusual explosives are now being used more often in lEDs [125-127]. 

Security issues may not be crucial to the chemical engineering aspects of a change or trigger event, but they may take on the role of a necessary administrative or management consideration before the change can be implemented. For example, some raw or intermediate materials may be governed by agencies similar to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF),... 

A Special agency now called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) within the U.S. Treasury Department was empowered to regulate the alcohoHc beverage industries. Although less adversarial, but strictly enforced even today (ca 1997), the regulations and their appHcation remain voluminous and detailed. They specify not only label compliance and matters relating to taxation that are of direct interest to consumers, but contain all the details of permitted processes for and additions to wines. 

Independent of these centers, the FDA also has overlapping jurisdiction with several other federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms the Federal Trade Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency. 

Both sorbic acid and potassium sorbate may be used under U.S. Department of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms regulations as sterilizing and preservative agents for treatment of wine and juice at up to 300 ppm/L (158). 

Because of the economic interest in distilled spidts, each country has estabHshed standards for their vadous types of distilled beverages, and countdes mutually respect each other s alcohoHc beverage standards. U.S. Standards of Identity are given by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) (2). 

Denatured Ethanol. Eor hundreds of years alcohoHc beverages have been taxed all over the world to generate government revenue. When ethanol emerged as a key industrial raw material, the alcohol tax was recognized as a burden to many essential manufacturing industries. To lift this burden, the Tax-Eree Industrial and Denatured Alcohol Act of 1906 was passed in the United States. The U.S. Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATE), now oversees the production, procurement, and use of ethanol in the United States. 

Sources Figures prior to 1965 compiled by Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics from issues of Wine Institutes Annual Wine Industry Statistical Survey, Part IV. Figures beginning in 1965 compiled by Wine Institute from reports of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, U.S. Treasury Department, and Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. 

The experiments reported here were conducted with the help of Drs. V. Boiadjiev, F. Tian, G. Muralidharan, and D. Hedden, J. E.Hawk, T. Gehl, and D. Yi. This work was supported by the National Safe Skies Alliance, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), and ORNF. Oak Ridge National Faboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, FFC, for the U. S. Dept, of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. 

National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 XBM Branch, Chendcal Research and Development Center, U.S. Amqr Chenucal Research, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010 Analytical Laboratories, Dow Chendcal Company, Midland, MI 48667 National Laboratmy Center, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,... 

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A substantial amount of laboratory research involves materials considered, in the legal sense of the term, as explosives rather than simply chemicals which can explode under appropriate conditions. The term explosive in this relatively rrarrow sense is defined as any material determined to be within the scope of Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 40, Importation Manufacture, Distribution and Storage of Explosive Materials, and any material classified as an erqrlosive by the Department of Transportation in the Hazardous Material regulations (Title 49 CFR, Parts 100-199). A list of the materials that are within the scope of Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 40 is published periodically by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, U.S. Department of the Treasury. 

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