WHMIS (Selenium (crystalline))

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Combustible dusts - See comments below1

• Specific target organ toxicity - repeated exposure - Category 12 3 4 5 6

Danger

Causes damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure (H372)

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.

Classifications regarding specific organ toxicity - repeated exposure (H372) is based on all available data for selenium and selenium compounds as sodium selenate.

References

• ▲1.  Vincoli, J.W., Risk management for hazardous chemicals : G-Z. Vol. 2. Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers. (1997). [RM-515112]
• ▲2.  France. Institut national de recherche et de sécurité, Fiche toxicologique no 150 : Sélénium et composés . Cahiers de notes documentaires. Paris : INRS. (2011). [RE-005509]   http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox.html
  http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox/fiche.html?refINRS=FICHETOX_150
• ▲3.  Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry (ATSDR), Toxicological profile for selenium. ATSDR. Washington D.C. : US Department of Health and Human Services. (2003).   http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ToxProfiles/tp92.pdf
• ▲4.  International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), Environmental Health Criteria 58: selenium. Geneva : World Health Orgnization. (1987). EHC58.
• ▲5.  France, Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques, Sélénium et ses composés . Paris : INERIS. (2011).   http://www.ineris.fr/substances/fr/substance/getDocument/3012
• ▲6.  Kolodziejczyk, L., Put, A. et Grzela, P., «LIVER MORPHOLOGY AND HISTOCHEMISTRY IN RATS RESULTING FROM INGESTION OF SODIUM SELENITE AND SODIUM FLUORIDE.» 6-16. Vol. 33, no. 1, p. 6-16. (2000).

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