WHMIS (Pelargonic acid)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Acute toxicity - inhalation - Category 41

• Skin corrosion/irritation - Category 21 2

• Serious eye damage/eye irritation - Category 21

Warning

Harmful if inhaled (H332)
Causes skin irritation (H315)
Causes serious eye irritation (H319)

Ingredient disclosure

Comments: Inhalation acute toxicity (H300) classification was established from the lowest tested dose (3,8mg/L/4h (aérosol)). At this dose, all animals died. Therefore this chemical could be classified in a more severe hazard category than the one mentioned above.

References

• ▲1.  National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme, Glutaraldehyde. Priority Existing Chemical Assessment Report no. 3 . Canberra, Australia : NICNAS. (1994).   http://www.nicnas.gov.au/publications/car/
• ▲2.  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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