WHMIS (Sodium nitrilotriacetate)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 41 2 3

• Serious eye damage/eye irritation - Category 21 4

• Carcinogenicity - Category 24 5

Warning

Harmful if swallowed (H302)
Causes serious eye irritation (H319)
Suspected of causing cancer (H351)

Ingredient disclosure

References

• ▲1.  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/
• ▲2.  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
• ▲3.  National Library of Medicine, The Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). Hamilton (Ont.) : Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.   http://www.ccohs.ca/
• ▲4.  IPCS (International Programme on Chemical Safety, Nitrilotriacetic acid trisodium salt. ICSC#1240. IPCS, CEC. (2003).   http://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics1240.htm
• ▲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

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