The Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances

Barium peroxide

RTECS #: CR0175000

CAS #: 1304-29-6

UPDATE: November 2004 MW: 169.34 MF: BaO2


NOTE:

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  1. SYNONYMS:
  2. ACUTE TOXICITY DATA:
  3. REVIEWS:
  4. STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS:
  5. NIOSH DOCUMENTATION AND SURVEILLANCE:
  6. STATUS IN FEDERAL AGENCIES:
  7. REFERENCES:

SYNONYMS:

  1. Bario (perossido di) (Italian)
  2. Barium binoxide
  3. Barium dioxide
  4. Bariumperoxid (German)
  1. Dioxyde de baryum (French)
  2. Peroxyde de baryum (French)
  3. Bariumperoxyde (Dutch)
  4. Barium superoxide


SKIN AND EYE IRRITATION DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
N/R
 N/R N/R N/R


MUTATION DATA AND REFERENCES:

SYSTEM TEST ROUTE/
ORGANISM/
TISSUE 		DOSE REFERENCE
N/R N/R N/R N/R


REPRODUCTIVE EFFECTS DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
N/R
 N/R N/R N/R


TUMORIGENIC DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
N/R
 N/R N/R N/R


ACUTE TOXICITY DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
subcutaneous
mouse 		lethal dose (50 percent kill): 50 mg/kg N/R ZVKOA6 19,186,1974


OTHER MULTIPLE DOSE DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
N/R
 N/R N/R N/R


REVIEWS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3 DTLVS* TLV/BEI,1999
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value Not classifiable as a human carcinogen DTLVS* TLV/BEI,1999


STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) STANDARD - air time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3 DTLVS* 3,21,1971
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limit (General Industry) 8 hour time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3 CFRGBR 29,1910.1000,1994
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limit (Construction) 8 hour time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3 CFRGBR 29,1926.55,1994
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limit (Shipyards) 8 hour time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3 CFRGBR 29,1915.1000,1993
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limit (Federal Contractors) 8 hour time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3 CFRGBR 41,50-204.50,1994
Occupational Exposure Limit - AUSTRALIA time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - BELGIUM time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - DENMARK time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - FINLAND time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - GERMANY MAK 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - HUNGARY short term exposure limit 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - NORWAY time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - THE NETHERLANDS MAC-TGG 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, 2003
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWEDEN time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWITZERLAND MAK- week 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - TURKEY time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit IN ARGENTINA, BULGARIA, COLOMBIA, JORDAN, KOREA American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value;

Not classifiable as a human carcinogen
Occupational Exposure Limit IN NEW ZEALAND, SINGAPORE, VIETNAM American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value
Not classifiable as a human carcinogen


NIOSH DOCUMENTATION AND SURVEILLANCE:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD or SURVEY
REFERENCE
National Occupational Hazard Survey 1974 National Occupational Hazard Survey 1974: Hazard Code: 83238;
Number of Industries 1;
Total Number of Facilities 57;
Number of Occupations 1;
Total Number of Employees Exposed 57
National Occupational Exposure Survey 1983 National Occupational Exposure Survey 1983: Hazard Code: 83238;
Number of Industries 1;
Total Number of Facilities 46;
Number of Occupations 2;
Total Number of Employees Exposed 511;
Total Number of Female Employees Exposed 325


STATUS IN FEDERAL AGENCIES:

ORGANIZATION
REFERENCE
EPA TSCA Section 8(b) CHEMICAL INVENTORY


REFERENCES:

CODEN
REFERENCE
CFRGBR Code of Federal Regulations. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Supt. of Documents, Washington, DC 20402)
DTLVS* The Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs) booklet issues by American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), Cincinnati, OH, 1996
ZVKOA6 Zhurnal Vsesoyuznogo Khimicheskogo Obshchestva im. D.I. Mendeleeva. Journal of the D.I. Mendeleeva All-Union Chemical Society. (V/O Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, 113095 Moscow, USSR) V.5- 1960-

Used for bleaching fibers, animal substances, to make HYDROGEN PEROXIDE, OXYGEN

NIOSH PROFILE (BARIUM and ITS COMPOUNDS), SRI, 2/77

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