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Fact Sheets
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In
1970, Congress directed the Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS) to provide public health oversight of the Department of
Defense (DOD) during the transportation, open-air testing, and
destruction of U.S. chemical warfare agents |
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This duty is carried out by DHHS's Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for
Environmental Health
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The purpose of this series of fact sheets is to
provide an overview of some of the duties that CDC routinely executes
to ensure that people are protected from potentially deadly chemical
warfare agents.
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CDC has been instrumental in establishing airborne
exposure limits for people in communities near chemical weapons,
during development of air monitoring systems, and in conducting
oversight inspections of DOD's activities involving chemical warfare
agents.
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Fact
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Engineering
Controls
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Air
Monitoring for Chemical Warfare Agents
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Chemical
Warfare Agent Exposure Limits
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