WHMIS (Diazinon)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 31 2 3

• Acute toxicity - inhalation - Category 41 2 3 4 5

• Carcinogenicity - Category 1B5 6 7 8

• Specific target organ toxicity - single exposure - Category 22 3

• Specific target organ toxicity - repeated exposure - Category 26 9

Danger

Toxic if swallowed (H301)
Harmful if inhaled (H332)
May cause cancer (H350)
May cause damage to organs (H371)
May cause damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure (H373)

Ingredient disclosure

References

• ▲1.  National Library of Medicine, The Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). Hamilton (Ont.) : Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.   http://www.ccohs.ca/
• ▲2.  International Program on Chemical Safety, Environmental Health Criteria 198: Diazinon. Genève : World Health Organization. (1998). EHC198. [MO-020161]   http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc198.htm
• ▲3.  Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Toxicological profile for diazinon : update. Atlanta, GA : ATSDR. (2008).   http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ToxProfiles/tp86.pdf
  http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/
• ▲4.  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances). Hamilton (Ont) : Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.   http://ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca/rtecs/search.html
• ▲5.  CRAAQ, SAgE.   http://www.sagepesticides.qc.ca
• ▲6.  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
• ▲7.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Some organophosphate insecticides and herbicides. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 112. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (2017).   http://monographs.iarc.fr/
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112.pdf
• ▲8.  IARC, «Carcinogenicity of tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate.» Lancet. Vol. 16, p. 490-491. (2015). [AP-024590]
• ▲9.  Bingham, E., Cohrssen, B. et Powell, C.H., Patty's toxicology. A Wiley-Interscience publication. New York (Toronto) : John Wiley. (2001-). [RM-214008]   http://www3.interscience.wiley.com (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/104554795/HOME)

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