AEP-52-2003
ASSESSMENT OF EFFECT LEVELS OF CLASSICAL CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS APPLIED TO THE SKIN TO BE USED IN THE DESIGN OF PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (ED 1; To obtain please contact your national Defense Standardization Office or the NATO Standardization Office website:

Standard No.

AEP-52-2003

Release Date

2003

Published By

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Scope

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this work is to produce a series of values pertaining to the percutaneous toxicity of defined chemical warfare (CW) agents which are agreed within the NATO community and can be used to inform NATO doctrine and specification development with respect to chemical and biological (CB) warfare defence activities. Originally@ a Team of Experts (TOE) was established in 1999 in order to agree pass/fail criteria with respect to CW agent penetration characteristics on NBC personal protective equipment (PPE). The intent was that this data would replace the interim pass/fail values that had been incorporated into D101 (The Protective Clothing Triptych@ which transitioned into AEP-38) with authoritative data@ agreed by the NATO nations. Sensible and validated values are essential in this respect@ since these will determine the overall performance specification of an NBC protective ensemble.