The Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances

Phosphorus oxide

RTECS #: TH3945000

CAS #: 1314-56-3

UPDATE: November 2004 MW: 141.94 MF: O5P2


NOTE:

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

SYNONYMS:

  1. Diphosphorus pentoxide
  2. Phosphorus (V) oxide
  1. Phosphorus pentaoxide


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
guinea pig 		lethal concentration (50 percent kill): 61 mg/m3/1 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Chronic pulmonary edema or congestion

Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Other changes

Blood: Hemorrhage 		TOXID9 1,140,1981
inhalation
mouse 		lethal concentration (50 percent kill): 271 mg/m3/1 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Chronic pulmonary edema or congestion

Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Other changes

Blood: Hemorrhage 		TOXID9 1,140,1981
inhalation
rat 		lethal concentration (50 percent kill): 1,217 mg/m3/1 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Chronic pulmonary edema or congestion

Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Other changes

Blood: Hemorrhage 		TOXID9 1,140,1981
inhalation
rabbit 		lethal concentration (50 percent kill): 1,689 mg/m3/1 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Chronic pulmonary edema or congestion

Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Other changes

Blood: Hemorrhage 		TOXID9 1,140,1981
inhalation
rabbit 		lowest published lethal concentration: 5,000 mg/m3/2 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Acute pulmonary edema VCVN5* -,73,1993


OTHER MULTIPLE DOSE DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
inhalation
mammal (species unspecified) 		lowest published toxic concentration: 200 mg/m3/24 hour/10 day- continuous Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Structural or functional change in trachea or bronchi VCVN5* -,73,1989


REVIEWS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
N/R N/R N/R


STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) 1998 STATUS OF PESTICIDES: Active registration RBREV* -,383,1998
Occupational Exposure Limit - AUSTRIA MAK 1 mg/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - DENMARK CEILING 1 mg/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - FRANCE VME 1 mg/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - GERMANY MAK 1 mg/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - HUNGARY time-weighted average 1 mg/m3, short term exposure limit 2 mg/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - NORWAY time-weighted average 1 mg/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - POLAND MAC(time-weighted average) 1 mg/m3, short term exposure limit 3 mg/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - RUSSIA short term exposure limit 1 mg/m3, Skin, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - THE NETHERLANDS MAC-TGG 1 mg/m3, 2003
Occupational Exposure Limit - TURKEY time-weighted average 1 mg/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - UNITED KINGDOM short term exposure limit 2 mg/m3, SEP2000


NIOSH DOCUMENTATION AND SURVEILLANCE:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD or SURVEY
REFERENCE
National Occupational Hazard Survey 1974 National Occupational Hazard Survey 1974: Hazard Code: 59115;
Number of Industries 25;
Total Number of Facilities 1,139;
Number of Occupations 43;
Total Number of Employees Exposed 13,561
National Occupational Exposure Survey 1983 National Occupational Exposure Survey 1983: Hazard Code: 59115;
Number of Industries 58;
Total Number of Facilities 4,491;
Number of Occupations 46;
Total Number of Employees Exposed 84,850;
Total Number of Female Employees Exposed 15,744


STATUS IN FEDERAL AGENCIES:

ORGANIZATION
REFERENCE
EPA TSCA Section 8(b) CHEMICAL INVENTORY
Used as intermediate in organic synthesis, catalyst, condensing agent, dehydrating agent
EPA TSCA TEST SUBMISSION (TSCATS) DATA BASE, JANUARY 2001


REFERENCES:

CODEN
REFERENCE
RBREV* Status of Pesticides in Registration, Reregistration, and Special Review (Rainbow Report), Special Review and Reregistration Division Office of Pesticide Programs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M. Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20460, Spring 1998
TOXID9 Toxicologist. (Soc. of Toxicology, Inc., 475 Wolf Ledge Parkway, Akron, OH 44311) V.1- 1981-
VCVN5* "Vrednie chemichescie veshestva. Neorganicheskie soedinenia elementov V-VII groopp" (Hazardous substances. Inornanic substances containing V-VII group elements), Bandman A.L. et al., Chimia, 1989.

Used as intermediate in organic synthesis, catalyst, condensing agent, dehydrating agent

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