WHMIS (Tetranitromethane)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Oxidizing liquids - Category 11

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 32 3

• Acute toxicity - inhalation - Category 13

• Carcinogenicity - Category 22 3 4

• Specific target organ toxicity - single exposure - Category 12 3

• Specific target organ toxicity - single exposure (respiratory tract irritation) - Category 3 - Respiratory tract irritation2 3

Danger

May cause fire or explosion; strong oxidizer (H271)
Toxic if swallowed (H301)
Fatal if inhaled (H330)
Suspected of causing cancer (H351)
Causes damage to organs (H370)
May cause respiratory irritation (H335)

Ingredient disclosure

References

• ▲1.  Canada. Ministère des transports, Règlement sur le transport des marchandises dangereuses. Ottawa : Éditions du gouvernement du Canada. (2014). [RJ-410222]   http://www.tc.gc.ca/fra/tmd/clair-menu-497.htm
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• ▲2.  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
• ▲3.  Centre canadien d'hygiène et de sécurité au travail, CHEMINFO, Hamilton, Ont. : Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety   http://ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca/cheminfo/search.html
• ▲4.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Printing processes and printing inks, carbon black and some nitro compounds. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 65. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (1996). [MO-018684]   https://monographs.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mono65.pdf

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