1 - Military-Medical Research Center, Romania 2 “Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest, Romania
2 - “Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest, Romania
Received: January 29, 2020
Accepted: May 23, 2020
All large armies (EU and/or NATO) have pharmaceutical production facilities to provide the necessary antidotes for the troops and the population: The French Army Medical Directorate produces many military-specific pharmaceutical products in its own laboratory, the Turkish Army owns its own medicines factory, including CBRN antidotes, the US Army, in addition to a sustained drug purchase program in the pharmaceutical industry has launched a new concept: Pharmacy on demand. Providing the armed forces with antidotes is a necessity, the concept for their endowement in this sense can be based on imports (sometimes impossible to achieve) or on the national development of a specialized production structure. The design or construction of a specific production capacity for antidotes can be accomplished on multiple variants, with a complexity proportional to the identified need. The total costs are high, but the objective and implementation of effective antidote supply mechanisms is a security guarantee for the armed forces and the civilian population (through commercialization to allied forces), given the risks of terrorist threats and hybrid warfare.
Ordeanu, V., Popescu, D.M., Necsulescu, M., Ionescu, L.E., Popa, A.C., & Sandulovici, R.C. (2025). Concepts for the implementation of a technological platform for the production of specific antidotes for cbrn medical protection. Romanian Journal of Military Medicine, 124(1), 61-66.
Ordeanu V, Popescu DM, Necsulescu M, Ionescu LE, Popa AC, Sandulovici RC. Concepts for the implementation of a technological platform for the production of specific antidotes for CBRN medical protection. Rom J Mil Med. 2025;124(1):61-66.
Ordeanu, V., Popescu, D.M., Necsulescu, M., Ionescu, L.E., Popa, A.C. & Sandulovici, R.C. 2025, 'Concepts for the implementation of a technological platform for the production of specific antidotes for CBRN medical protection', Romanian Journal of Military Medicine, vol. 124, no. 1, pp. 61-66.