WHMIS (Sodium borate)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Serious eye damage/eye irritation - Category 21 2 3

• Reproductive toxicity - Category 1B1 3 4 5 6
• Toxic to the development
• Toxic to the reproductive function

Danger

Causes serious eye irritation (H319)
May damage fertility or the unborn child (H360)

Ingredient disclosure

References

• ▲1.  France. Institut national de recherche et de sécurité, Fiche toxicologique no 287 : Tétraborate de disodium (borate). Cahier de notes documentaires. Paris : INRS. (2012).   http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox.html
  http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox/fiche.html?refINRS=FICHETOX_287
• ▲2.  Bureau européen des substances chimiques, European Union Risk Assessment Report : disodium tetraborate, anhydrous boric acid/ boric acid ,crude natural . Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.   http://ecb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esis/
  https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/ea3533df-1457-4664-98d6-51b2f904af36
• ▲3.  IPCS (International Programme on Chemical Safety), Sodium tetraborate. ICSC#1229. (2014).   http://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics1229.htm
• ▲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.  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Kommission zur Prüfung Gesundheitsschädlicher Arbeitsstoffe, Occupational toxicants : critical data evaluation for MAK values and classification of carcinogens. Weinheim; New York : VCH. (1991-). [MO-020680]   www.wiley-vch.de
  www.mak-collection.com
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/3527600418/topics
• ▲6.  INRS, DEMETER : documents pour l'évaluation médicale des produits toxiques vis-à-vis de la reproduction. Paris : Institut national de recherche et de sécurité pour la prévention des accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles. (2006).   http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/demeter.html

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