Advice from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on riot control agents in connection to the Chemical Weapons Convention

* Corresponding authors

^a OPCW Scientific Advisory Board Chair, 2015–2018, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK
E-mail: cmtimperley@dstl.gov.uk

^b Secretary to the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board and Science Policy Adviser, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, The Netherlands
E-mail: jonathan.forman@opcw.org

^c Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Kjeller, Norway

^d Toxicology and Diseases Group, The Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (TIPS), Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, The Islamic Republic of Iran

^e LMPMP, Faculty of Technology, Ferhat Abbas University, Setif-1, Algeria

^f Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^g Secrétariat Général de la Défense et de la Sécurité Nationale (SGDSN), Paris, France

^h BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany

ⁱ BAI Scientific, Melbourne, Australia

^j University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

^k Institute of Chemistry, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines

^l Spiez Laboratory, Spiez, Switzerland

^m Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

ⁿ Consultant to Monsanto Company, Louisiana, USA

^o Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia

^p Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

^q United States Department of State, Washington, D.C., USA

^r ABIQUIM, Brazilian Chemical Industry Association, São Paulo, Brazil

^s Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

^t Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC), Brazilia, Brazil

^u Computational Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Réduit 80837, Mauritius

^v Institute of Pesticides Formulation Technology (IPFT), Gurugram, Haryana, India

^w State Scientific Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology (GosNIIOKhT), Moscow, Russian Federation

^x Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan

^y National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan

^z OPCW Scientific Advisory Board Vice-Chair, 2015–2018, Office for the Disposal of Japanese Abandoned Chemical Weapons, Ministry of National Defence, Beijing, China

^aa Department of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

^ab South African Nuclear Energy Corporation SOC Ltd., Pretoria, South Africa

^ac Scientific Advisory Board Chair, 2014, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Rosario, Argentina

^ad Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan

^ae VERIFIN, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

^af National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM), Islamabad, Pakistan

^ag National Poison Control Centre, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia

^ah Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

^ai Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

^aj Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (FST), Tunis, Tunisia

^ak Secretary to the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board, 2011–2015, OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands

^al Intern at the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands