UNITED NATIONS: A U.N. official said Thursday that a substance found at a U.N. office last week suspected of being a chemical agent appears to be a nontoxic solvent.
The material was found at a U.N. office in midtown Manhattan in inventory files with a label that indicated it could be phosgene, a chemical substance used in World War I weapons. It had been in the files for 11 years and was only identified when officials checked the inventory number against the many records in their vast archives.
U.N. and U.S. officials said after the discovery the material posed no threat to anyone's health or safety. However, it was removed by a team of hazardous materials experts from the FBI and the New York Police Department and taken to a laboratory for testing.
The U.N. official said Thursday that preliminary results indicate the substance was a nontoxic solvent, not phosgene.
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