WARFARE CHEMICALS: MECHANISMS OF ACTION AND LEGAL STATUS

Yıl 2017, Cilt: Volume 2 Sayı: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology, 82 - 82, 16.02.2017

Sadık Toprak

Öz

Terror actions
and warfare threats are challenging tasks for scientific community and defense
agencies around the globe. Chemical weapon use is considered as a serious war
crime. For this reason, determining the use of chemical warfare agents (CWAs)
in times of war or in acts of terrorism becomes an important task. Because of
“for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons”, the Organization for
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was received the 2013 Nobel peace
prize.

From forensic
pathology point of view CWAs-related suspected cases are one of the most
difficult problems. Lack of reliable evidence and scientific information are
major difficulties in this field. Scientific research on CWAs is mainly
revolved around chemicals itself and metabolites/degradation materials.

In this presentation physiological and morphological aspects associated
with selected toxic chemical exposure from a mainly forensic pathology
perspective are presented.

Anahtar Kelimeler

WARFARE CHEMICALS: MECHANISMS OF ACTION AND LEGAL STATUS

Kaynakça

• Sadık TOPRAK Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey