WHMIS (Potassium bromate)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Oxidizing solids - Category 21

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 32 3

• Germ cell mutagenicity - Category 24 5 6 7 8

• Carcinogenicity - Category 25

Danger

May intensify fire; oxidizer (H272)
Toxic if swallowed (H301)
Suspected of causing genetic defects (H341)
Suspected of causing cancer (H351)

Ingredient disclosure

References

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• ▲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/
• ▲3.  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
• ▲4.  National Library of Medicine, The Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). Hamilton (Ont.) : Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.   http://www.ccohs.ca/
• ▲5.  IARC Working group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Some chemicals that cause tumours of the kidney or urinary bladder in rodents and some other substances. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 73. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (1999).   https://monographs.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mono73.pdf
• ▲6.  Fischer, J.W. et al., «Trichloroethylene, trichloroacetic acid, and dichloroacetic acid : do they affect fetal rat heart development.» International Journal of Toxicology. Vol. 20, no. 5, p. 57-267. (2001).
• ▲7.  «Final Report on the Safety Assessment of Sodium Bromate and Potassium Bromate.» Journal of the American College of Toxicology. Vol. 13, no. 5, p. 400-441. (1994). [AP-046013]
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