WHMIS (o-Anisidine)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 41 2

• Carcinogenicity - Category 1B3

• Specific target organ toxicity - single exposure - Category 22 4

• Specific target organ toxicity - repeated exposure - Category 22 5

Danger

Harmful if swallowed (H302)
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.  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
• ▲2.  Bureau européen des substances chimiques, European Union Risk Assessment Report: o-Anisidine. 32nd Priority List, Vol. 15. Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. (2002).
• ▲3.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Some aromatic amines and related compounds. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 127. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (2021).   http://monographs.iarc.fr/
  Volume127.pdf
• ▲4.  ASHBY, J. et al., «THE NON-GENOTOXICITY TO RODENTS OF THE POTENT RODENT BLADDER CARCINOGENS O-ANISIDIEN AND P-CRESIDINE .» Mutation Research. Vol. 250, no. 1, p. 115-133. (1991). [AP-036824]
• ▲5.  ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) , Information on chemicals (REACH)/ECHA chemicals database. Helsinki, Finland.   http://echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals/registered-substances
  https://chem.echa.europa.eu/

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