WHMIS (o-Nitrotoluene)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 41 2 3 4 5

• Carcinogenicity - Category 1B6 7 8

Danger

Harmful if swallowed (H302)
May cause cancer (H350)

Ingredient disclosure

References

• ▲1.  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
• ▲2.  National Library of Medicine, The Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). Hamilton (Ont.) : Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.   http://www.ccohs.ca/
• ▲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.  Bingham, E., Cohrssen, B. et Powell, C.H., Patty's toxicology. A Wiley-Interscience publication. New York (Toronto) : John Wiley. (2001-). [RM-214008]   http://www3.interscience.wiley.com (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/104554795/HOME)
• ▲5.  Bureau européen des substances chimiques, European Union Risk Assessment Report : 2-Nitrotoluene. Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.   http://ecb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esis/
  http://ecb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/DOCUMENTS/Existing-Chemicals/RISK_ASSESSMENT/REPORT/dibutylphthalatereport003.pdf
• ▲6.  Report on Carcinogens, 15th edition. Research Triangle Park, NC : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Toxicology Program. (2021).   https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/pubhealth/roc/index-1.html
• ▲7.  American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Documentation of the threshold limit values and biological exposure indices / Documentation of TLV's and BEI's. 7th ed. Cincinnati, Ohio : ACGIH. (2001-). Publication #0100Doc. [RM-514008]   http://www.acgih.org
• ▲8.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, A Review of Human Carcinogens: Some chemicals in industrial and consumer products, food contaminants and flavourings, and water chlorination by-products. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 101. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (2012).   http://monographs.iarc.fr/
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol101/index.php

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