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OC (Oleoresin Capsicum), pepper sprays, have been around law enforcement since the 1980’s. Classified as an irritant spray, OC comes in many forms—stream and cone projectors; sticky foam spray dispensers and powder (powder being reserved for kinetic energy impact munitions that look like paintballs, and barricade penetrating rounds that can be fired through 12 gauge, 37mm and 40mm launchers). There are even aerosol grenades that look like standard chemical munitions grenades but contain small canisters inside the grenade body that, when dispensed, can fill a large room with the pepper product (aerosol or powder being required because OC is flammable and cannot be used in pyrotechnic grenades).
The irritant chemical OC is extracted from pulverized peppers and concentrated. The micro-pulverized OC is then contained within a liquid solvent so that it can be sprayed. It is concentrated in the manufacturing process to a specific percentage of OC and capsaicinoid content that is much hotter than any natural pepper. Standards in the industry are rated on a SHU (Scoville Heat Unit) scale. With Scotch Bonnet (habanero) peppers rated at around 300,000 SHU’s, pepper sprays are usually at least one million SHU’s. Some sprays list an SHU level of over five million.
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