Toxicology
• Undiluted chloropicrin is highly toxic by ingestion or direct contact with the skin or eyes(E X T O X N E T, 2015)
. • It is a severe irritant of skin and mucus membranes
• Exposure to undiluted chloropicrin is severely and immediately irritating to the upper respiratory tract, eyes and skin(E X T O X N E T, 2015)
• Chloropicrin affects primarily the medium and small bronchi, in addition to the alveoli, resulting in fatal pulmonary edema (Clayton and Clayton, 1982; Gonmoriet al, 1987) • Chloropicrin reportedly reacts with sulfhydryl groups on hemoglobin to interfere with oxygen transport.
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