WHMIS (4-Aminobiphenyl)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 41 2 3

• Germ cell mutagenicity - Category 21 4 5

• Carcinogenicity - Category 1A2 6 7

Danger

Harmful if swallowed (H302)
Suspected of causing genetic defects (H341)
May cause cancer (H350)

Ingredient disclosure

References

• ▲1.  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
• ▲2.  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
• ▲3.  Deichmann, W.B. et al., «Observations on the effects of diphenyl, o- and p-aminodiphenyl, o- and p-nitrodiphenyl and dihydroxyoctachlorodiphenyl upon experimental animals.» Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology. Vol. 20, no. 1, p. 1-13. (1947). [AP-021167]
• ▲4.  Morita, T. et al., «Evaluation of the rodent micronucleus assay in the screening of IARC carcinogens (Group 1, 2A and 2B). The summary report of the 6th collaborative study by CSGMT/JEMS.MMS.» Mutation Research. Vol. 389, p. 3-122. (1997). [AP-000456]
• ▲5.  Neal, S. B. et Probst, G. S., «Chemically-induced sister-chromatid exchange in vivo in bone marrow of Chinese hamsters .» Mutation Research. Vol. 113, p. 33-43. (1983). [ap-034387]
• ▲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, Overall evaluations of carcinogenicity : an updating of IARC monographs volumes 1-42. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Supplement 7. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (1987).   https://monographs.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Suppl7.pdf
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/

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