The Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances

Cadmium oxide fume

RTECS #: EV1930000

CAS #: N/R

UPDATE: November 2004 MW: 128.40 MF: CdO


NOTE:

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

SYNONYMS:

  1. Cadmium fume
  1. Cadmium oxide fume (ACGIH:OSHA)


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
inhalation
dog 		lethal concentration (50 percent kill): 4,000 mg/m3/10 minute N/R JIHTAB 29,279,1947
inhalation
guinea pig 		lethal concentration (50 percent kill): 3,500 mg/m3/10 minute N/R JIHTAB 29,279,1947
inhalation
human 		lowest published lethal concentration: 2,500 mg/m3 N/R JIHTAB 29,279,1947
inhalation
man 		lowest published toxic concentration: 8,630 µg/m3/5 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Cough

Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Dyspnea

Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Cyanosis 		BJIMAG 23,292,1966
inhalation
monkey 		lethal concentration (50 percent kill): 15,000 mg/m3/10 minute N/R JIHTAB 29,279,1947
inhalation
mouse 		lowest published lethal concentration: 700 mg/m3/10 minute N/R JIHTAB 29,279,1947
inhalation
rat 		lethal concentration (50 percent kill): 500 mg/m3/10 minute N/R JIHTAB 29,279,1947
inhalation
rabbit 		lethal concentration (50 percent kill): 2,500 mg/m3/10 minute N/R JIHTAB 29,279,1947
inhalation
woman 		lowest published lethal concentration: 8 mg/m3 Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Acute pulmonary edema

Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Dyspnea

Nutritional and Gross Metabolic: Body temperature increase 		VCVN1* -,164,1988


OTHER MULTIPLE DOSE DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
inhalation
rat 		lowest published toxic concentration: 100 µg/m3/6 hour/4 week- intermittent Blood: Changes in other cell count (unspecified) ENVRAL 24,192,1981


REVIEWS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value time-weighted average 0.01 mg(Cd)/m3, inhalable dust DTLVS* TLV/BEI,1999
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value Suspected human carcinogen DTLVS* TLV/BEI,1999
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Cancer Review Human Sufficient Evidence IMEMDT 58,119,1993
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Cancer Review Animal Sufficient Evidence IMEMDT 58,119,1993
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Cancer Review Group 1 IMEMDT 58,119,1993
TOXICOLOGY REVIEW
ANAEA3 35,165,1975


STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) STANDARD air-ceiling concentration 0.1 mg/m3 DTLVS* 3,36,1971
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limit (Federal Contractors) 8 hour time-weighted average 0.1 mg/m3 CFRGBR 41,50-204.50,1994
Occupational Exposure Limit - ARAB Republic of Egypt time-weighted average 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - AUSTRALIA time-weighted average 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - BELGIUM time-weighted average 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - DENMARK time-weighted average 0.01 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - FINLAND time-weighted average 0.02 mg(Cd)/m3, Carcinogen, Jan1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - FRANCE VME 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, continuous2 Carcinogen, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - GERMANY Carcinogen, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - INDIA time-weighted average 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - JAPAN Occupational Exposure Limit 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, Group 1 Carcinogen, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - NORWAY time-weighted average 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - THE PHILIPPINES time-weighted average 0.2 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - POLAND MAC(time-weighted average) 0.02 mg(Cd)/m3, MAC(short term exposure limit) 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - RUSSIA time-weighted average 0.01 mg(Cd)/m3, short term exposure limit 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWEDEN Carcinogen, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWITZERLAND MAK- week 0.05 mg(Cd)/m3, Carcinogen, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - THAILAND time-weighted average 0.2 mg(Cd)/m3, short term exposure limit 0.5 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - TURKEY time-weighted average 0.2 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - UNITED KINGDOM LTEL 0.01 mg(Cd)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit IN ARGENTINA, BULGARIA, COLOMBIA, JORDAN, KOREA American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value;

Suspected human carcinogen
Occupational Exposure Limit IN NEW ZEALAND, SINGAPORE, VIETNAM American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value
Suspected human carcinogen


NIOSH DOCUMENTATION AND SURVEILLANCE:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD or SURVEY
REFERENCE
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Recommended Exposure Level TO CADMIUM, dust and fume-air Carcinogen lowest feasible conc. NIOSH* DHHS #92-100,1992


STATUS IN FEDERAL AGENCIES:

ORGANIZATION
REFERENCE
NTP 10th Report on Carcinogens,2002:Known to be a human carcinogen


REFERENCES:

CODEN
REFERENCE
ANAEA3 Annals of Allergy. (American College of Allergists, POB 20671, Bloomington, MN 55420) V.1- 1943-
BJIMAG British Journal of Industrial Medicine. (British Medical Journal, Box 560B, Kennebunkport, ME 04046) V.1- 1944-
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
ENVRAL Environmental Research. (Academic Press, Inc., 1 E. First St., Duluth, MN 55802) V.1- 1967-
IMEMDT IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Man. (WHO Publications Centre USA, 49 Sheridan Ave., Albany, NY 12210) V.1- 1972-
JIHTAB Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology. (Cambridge, MA) V.18-31, 1936-49. For publisher information, see AEHLAU.
NIOSH* National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Reports and Memoranda.
VCVN1* "Vrednie chemichescie veshestva. Neorganicheskie soedinenia elementov I-IV groopp" (Hazardous substances. Inornanic substances containing I-IV group elements), Filov V.A., Chimia, 1988.

Used in electroplating, manufacturing electrodes and synthesis of other cadmium salts

RTECS Compound Description:
   Tumorigen
   Human Data

ALT CAS #: N/R
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