Environmental sentinel biomonitors: integrated response systems for monitoring toxic chemicals

William H. van der Schalie; Roy Reuter; Tommy R. Shedd; Paul L. Knechtges

doi:10.1117/12.456920

21 February 2002 Environmental sentinel biomonitors: integrated response systems for monitoring toxic chemicals

William H. van der Schalie, Roy Reuter, Tommy R. Shedd, Paul L. Knechtges

Proceedings Volume 4575, Chemical and Biological Early Warning Monitoring for Water, Food, and Ground; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456920
Event: Environmental and Industrial Sensing, 2001, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

Operational environments for military forces are becoming potentially more dangerous due to the increased number, use, and misuse of toxic chemicals across the entire range of military missions. Defense personnel may be exposed to harmful chemicals as a result of industrial accidents or intentional or unintentional action of enemy, friendly forces, or indigenous populations. While there has been a significant military effort to enable forces to operate safely and survive and sustain operations in nuclear, biological, chemical warfare agent environments, until recently there has not been a concomitant effort associated with potential adverse health effects from exposures of deployed personnel to toxic industrial chemicals. To provide continuous real-time toxicity assessments across a broad spectrum of individual chemicals or chemical mixtures, an Environmental Sentinel Biomonitor (ESB) system concept is proposed. An ESB system will integrate data from one or more platforms of biologically-based systems and chemical detectors placed in the environment to sense developing toxic conditions and transmit time-relevant data for use in risk assessment, mitigation, and/or management. Issues, challenges, and next steps for the ESB system concept are described, based in part on discussions at a September 2001 workshop sponsored by the U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research.

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William H. van der Schalie, Roy Reuter, Tommy R. Shedd, and Paul L. Knechtges "Environmental sentinel biomonitors: integrated response systems for monitoring toxic chemicals", Proc. SPIE 4575, Chemical and Biological Early Warning Monitoring for Water, Food, and Ground, (21 February 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456920

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Chemical analysis

Industrial chemicals

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