Guidelines for Chemical Warfare Agents in Military Field Drinking Water (1995) / Chapter Skim
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APPENDIX A
APPENDIX A
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Appendix A
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The subcommittee considered these criteria in responding to its charge to review the Army's proposed field drinking-water standards. Based ore its review of the proposed standards and the criteria used to develop the standards, the subcommittee concluded that the criteria used by the Army and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory were adequate.
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The basic purpose of field drink~ng-water standards is to prevent decrements in the performance of military personnel with battlefield responsibilities. To develop field drinking-water guidelines for CW agents in a consistent fashion, the Army relied on the following set of criteria regarding the characteristics of the population at risk, water-consumption rates and exposure periods, data requirements, toxic effects, and uncertainty factors (Daniels and Layton, 1988)
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military and civilian experts, access to drinking water meeting the long-term standards is unlikely to be denied for more than 7 consecutive days. Long-term standards for field drinking water are applicable to forces deployed in military situations lasting up to ~ year; in those situations, military personnel would obtain the greatest proportion of their drinking water from military water-purification equipment, such as the reverse osmosis water purification unit.
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In combat situations, long-term adverse health effects (e.g., carcinogenesis, developmental and reproductive effects, and latent or chronic effects) are typically not as imminent or as consequential as performance decrements induced by immediate (i.e., acute)
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When the data were not sufficient to identify a NOAEL, the Army used a NOEL or LOAEL and applied an uncertainty factor of 10. MODIFICATIONS TO FIELD DRINKING-WATER STANDARDS The subcommittee reviewed the criteria used by the Army in deriving field drinking-water standards for CW agents.
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The subcommittee did not agree with the methods used by the Army to derive field drinking-water standards for sulfur mustard. The Army based its proposed standards for sulfur mustard on an acute LOEL of 300 ,ug/kg of body weight per day (Dacre and Burrows, 19881.
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1986. Occupational and Environmental Health Sanitary Control and Surveillance of Field Water Supplies.
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