WHMIS (Sodium arsenite)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 21 2 3

• Carcinogenicity - Category 1A4 5

• Specific target organ toxicity - repeated exposure - Category 12

Danger

Fatal if swallowed (H300)
May cause cancer (H350)
Causes damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure (H372)

Ingredient disclosure

References

• ▲1.  International Program on Chemical Safety, Environmental Health Criteria 224 : Arsenic and arsenic compounds . Genève : World Health Organization. (2001). EHC224.   http://www.inchem.org/pages/ehc.html
  http://www.inchem.org:80/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc224.htm
• ▲2.  Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Toxicological profile for Arsenic (update 2007). Atlanta, GA : ATSDR. (2007).   http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp2.pdf
  http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
• ▲3.  Done, A.K. et Peart, A.J., «Acute toxicities of arsenical herbicides.» Clinical toxicology. Vol. 4, no. 3, p. 343-355. (Sept. 1971). [AP-000932]
• ▲4.  American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Documentation of the threshold limit values and biological exposure indices / Documentation of TLV's and BEI's. 7th ed. Cincinnati, Ohio : ACGIH. (2001-). Publication #0100Doc. [RM-514008]   http://www.acgih.org
• ▲5.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, A Review of Human Carcinogens: Arsenic, Metals, Fibres, and Dusts. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 100C. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (2012).   http://monographs.iarc.fr/
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol100C/mono100C.pdf
  

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