WHMIS (Trichloroacetic acid)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Skin corrosion/irritation - Category 11
• Strong acid: pH of a 0.1 M solution = 1.2

• Serious eye damage/eye irritation - Category 11
• Strong acid: pH of a 0.1M solution = 1.2

• Carcinogenicity - Category 22 3

• Health hazards not otherwise classified (corrosion) - Category 1

Danger

Causes severe skin burns and eye damage (H314)
Suspected of causing cancer (H351)
Causes severe damage to the respiratory tract

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.  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.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene and some others chlorinated agents. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 106. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (2014).   http://monographs.iarc.fr/
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol106/index.php

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