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Fact Sheets

    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 and destruction of U.S. chemical warfare agents

    • This duty is carried out by DHHS's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health
    • 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.
    • 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.
    Air Monitoring Equipment

    Inspecting Ton Containers

    "Punch" Machine

    Fact Sheets

    1. Engineering Controls 
    2. Air Monitoring for Chemical Warfare Agents
    3. Chemical Warfare Agent Exposure Limits