ATSDR - Toxicological Profile: Sulfur Mustard

TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE INFORMATION:

The ATSDR toxicological profile succintly characterizes the toxicologic and adverse health effects information for the hazardous substance described here. Each peer-reviewed profile identifies and reviews the key literature that describes a hazardous substance's toxicologic properties. Other pertinent literature is also presented, but is described in less detail than the key studies. The complete list of topics covered (chapter titles) is shown at the left and in more detail further down this page.

The focus of the profile is on health and toxicologic information. Therefore, each profile begins with a Public Health Statement that summarizes in nontechnical language, a substance's relevant properties.

A useful two page information sheet, the ToxFAQs™, is also available.

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TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE CONTENTS:

The table of contents and list of individual PDF files are given below. The whole profile in one large PDF file is here: PDF File-1.7M

PREFACE PDF File-534k

Disclaimer
Update statement
Foreword
Quick Reference For Health Care Providers
Contributors
Peer review
Contents
List of figures
List of tables

1. PUBLIC HEALTH STATEMENT PDF File-128k

1.1 What is this substance? 1.2 What happens to it when it enters the environment?
1.3 How might I be exposed to it?
1.4 How can it enter and leave my body?
1.5 How can it affect my health?
1.6 How can it affect children?
1.7 How can families reduce the risk of exposure?
1.8 Is there a medical test to determine whether I have been exposed to it?
1.9 What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human health?
1.10 Where can I get more information?

2. RELEVANCE TO PUBLIC HEALTH PDF File-215k

2.1 Background and environmental exposures in the United States
2.2 Summary of health effects
2.3 Minimal risk levels (MRLS)

3. HEALTH EFFECTS PDF File-751k

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Discussion of health effects by route of exposure
3.3 Genotoxicity
3.4 Toxicokinetics
3.5 Mechanisms of action
3.6 Toxicities mediated through the neuroendocrine axis
3.7 Children's susceptibility
3.8 Biomarkers of exposure and effect

3.9 Interactions with other chemicals
3.10 Populations that are unusually susceptible
3.11 Methods for reducing toxic effects
3.12 Adequacy of the database

4. CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL INFORMATION PDF File-187k

4.1 Chemical identity
4.2 Physical and chemical properties

5. PRODUCTION, IMPORT, USE, AND DISPOSAL PDF File- 233k

5.1 Production
5.2 Import/Export
5.3 Use
5.4 Disposal

6. POTENTIAL FOR HUMAN EXPOSURE PDF File-285k

6.1 Overview
6.2 Releases to the environment
6.3 Environmental fate
6.4 Levels monitored or estimated in the environment
6.5 General population and occupational exposure
6.6 Exposures of children
6.7 Populations with potentially high exposure
6.8 Adequacy of the database

7. ANALYTICAL METHODS PDF File-249k

7.1 Biological materials
7.2 Environmental samples
7.3 Adequacy of the database

8. REGULATIONS AND ADVISORIES PDF File-145k

9. REFERENCES PDF File-343k

10. GLOSSARY PDF File-259k

APPENDICES PDF File-416k

A. ATSDR minimal risk level worksheets
B. User's guide
C. Acronyms, abbreviations, and symbols
D. Acute exposure guideline levels (aegls) for sulfur mustard

Reference

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2003. Toxicological profile for Sulfur Mustard. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.

Disclaimer

All ATSDR toxicological profile PDF files are electronic conversions from paper copy or other electronic ASCII text files. This conversion may have resulted in character translation or format errors. Users are referred to the original paper copy of the toxicological profile for the official text, figures, and tables. Original paper copies can be obtained via the directions on the toxicological profile home page, which also contains other important information about the profiles.

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This page was updated on April 26, 2004