The Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances

Wood dust

RTECS #: ZC9850000

CAS #: N/R

UPDATE: May 2005 MW: N/R MF: N/R


NOTE:

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

SYNONYMS:

  1. Wood dust (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
N/R
 N/R N/R N/R


OTHER MULTIPLE DOSE DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
inhalation
rat 		lowest published toxic concentration: 1,683.5 mg/kg/13 week- intermittent Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Consolidation

Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Fibrosis (interstitial) 		VCVPS* -,197,1998
intratracheal
rat 		lowest published toxic dose: 7,000 mg/kg/4 week- intermittent Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Other changes VCVPS* -,197,1998


REVIEWS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value time-weighted average 5 mg/m3, soft wood DTLVS* TLV/BEI,1999
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value time-weighted average 1 mg/m3, hard wood DTLVS* TLV/BEI,1999
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value time-weighted average 5 mg/m3, short term exposure limit 10 mg/kg, soft wood DTLVS* TLV/BEI,1999
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value Confirmed human carcinogen, hard wood DTLVS* TLV/BEI,1999
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Cancer Review Animal Inadequate Evidence IMEMDT 62,35,1995
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Cancer Review Group 1 IMEMDT 62,35,1995


STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
Occupational Exposure Limit - GERMANY Carcinogen (beech), JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - GERMANY Carcinogen (hard wood), JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - GERMANY Carcinogen (soft wood), JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWEDEN time-weighted average 2 mg/m3, Carcinogen, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWITZERLAND MAK- week 2 mg/m3 (hard wood), JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWITZERLAND MAK- week 5 mg/m3 (soft wood), JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - TURKEY time-weighted average 10 mg/m3 (soft wood), JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - UNITED KINGDOM LTEL 5 mg/m3 (hard wood), JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - UNITED KINGDOM LTEL 5 mg/m3 (soft wood), JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit IN ARGENTINA, BULGARIA, COLOMBIA, JORDAN, KOREA American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value;

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


NIOSH DOCUMENTATION AND SURVEILLANCE:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD or SURVEY
REFERENCE
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Recommended Exposure Level TO WOOD DUST, all soft and hard woods-air 10 hour time-weighted average 1 mg/m3 NIOSH* DHHS #92-100,1992


STATUS IN FEDERAL AGENCIES:

ORGANIZATION
REFERENCE
NTP 11th Report on Carcinogens,2004:Known to be human carcinogen


REFERENCES:

CODEN
REFERENCE
DTLVS* The Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs) booklet issues by American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), Cincinnati, OH, 1996
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-
NIOSH* National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Reports and Memoranda.
VCVPS* "Vrednie chemichescie veshestva. Prirodnie organicheskie soedinenia" (Hazardous substances. Nature products.) Volkova N.V. et al., Sankt-Peterburg, 1998.

RTECS Compound Description:
   Tumorigen

ALT CAS #: N/R
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