WHMIS (Bisphenol A)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Combustible dusts - See comments below1 2

• Serious eye damage/eye irritation - Category 12 3 4 5 6 7

• Skin sensitization - Category 12 3 6 7

• Reproductive toxicity - Category 22 3 6
• Toxic to the reproductive function

• Specific target organ toxicity - single exposure (respiratory tract irritation) - Category 3 - Respiratory tract irritation2 3 6

Danger

Causes serious eye damage (H318)
May cause allergic skin reaction (H317)
Suspected of damaging fertility or the unborn child (H361)
May cause respiratory irritation (H335)

Ingredient disclosure

Comments: This product could belong to the hazard class "Combustible dust", based on various factors related to the combustibility and explosiveness of its dust, including composition, shape and size of the particles.

References

• ▲1.  Combustion and explosion characteristics of dusts : BIA-Report 13/97. Sankt Ausgustin, Allemagne. (1997). [MO-127954]
• ▲2.  IPCS (International Programme on Chemical Safety), Bisphenol A. ICSC #0634. IPCS, CEC. (2011).   http://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics0634.htm
• ▲3.  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
• ▲4.  Smyth, H.F. Jr., Carpenter, C.P. et Weil, C.S., «Range-finding toxicity data : list IV.» Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine. Vol. 4, p. 119-122. (1951). [AP-060583]
• ▲5.  Grant, W.M. et Schuman, J.S., Toxicology of the eye : effects on the eyes and visual systems from chemicals, drugs, metals and minerals, plants, toxins and venoms; also, systemic side effects from eye medications. Vol. 1, 4th ed. Springfield (ILL.) : Charles C. Thomas. (1993). [RM-515030]
• ▲6.  France. Institut national de recherche et de sécurité, Fiche toxicologique no 279 : Bisphénol A. Cahiers de notes documentaires. Paris : INRS. (2013).   http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox.html
  http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox/fiche.html?refINRS=FICHETOX_279
• ▲7.  Bureau européen des substances chimiques, IUCLID Dataset : 4-4'-isopropylidenediphenol. Ispra, Italie : Commission européenne. (2000).   http://esis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/doc/IUCLID/datasheet/80057.pdf

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