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Chemical Security
Analysis Center Chemical Agents
Reac- tions Database ( CARD
)

2020 ASTORS Champion : DHS Science and Technology

Directorate www . AmericanSecurityToday . com 2020 CHAMPIONS - Edition 51

DHS Science & Technology ( S & T

)

Chemical Security

Analysis Center Chemical Agents

Reac- tions Database ( CARD

)

Excellence in Homeland Security

CARD , a chemical synthesis and chemi- cal informatics centric data system ( e . g

. boiling point , melting point , toxicity ,

or spectroscopic information ) containing both unclassified and classified data , is accessible from a classified website maintained on a serv- er hosted by the DoD

.

It explains how chemi- cals of interest could

be produced along with

a detailed description of how each chemical

is prepared- to

include info relevant to each step , the

reagents and reactants that are needed and the conditions necessary

for the reactions to take place , such as time

, temperature , mixing like a recipe . If law enforcement were to discover a ta- ble full of labeled chemicals in a

clan- destine laboratory , they would put these names as a list in

CARD to find out what the suspects are making illicit drugs

, poisons , or warfare agents

.

CARD can also be used to identify com- ponents for a chemical

. For example , if police capture a suspect with a vial of sarin gas ( a nerve agent that can kill in minutes after inhalation ), they can use

CARD to determine which chemicals are used to make it . Police can then search the suspect s illicit lab for those chem- icals and obtain further evidence of wrongdoing .

CARD is a tool for assisting federal law enforcement with interdiction , prosecution , and reduction of drug proliferation .
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