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Acetic acid, barium salt

RTECS #: AF4550000

CAS #: 543-80-6

UPDATE: May 2009 MW: 255.44 MF: C4H6O4•Ba


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. Barium acetate
  2. Barium diacetate
  1. Octan barnaty (Czech)


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
intravenous
mouse 		lethal dose (50 percent kill): 21 mg/kg N/R TXAPA9 22,150,1972
intravenous
rabbit 		lowest published lethal dose: 12 mg/kg N/R EQSSDX 1,1,1975
oral
rat 		lethal dose (50 percent kill): 921 mg/kg N/R MarJV# 29MAR1977
oral
rabbit 		lowest published lethal dose: 236 mg/kg N/R EQSSDX 1,1,1975
subcutaneous
rabbit 		lowest published lethal dose: 96 mg/kg N/R EQSSDX 1,1,1975


OTHER MULTIPLE DOSE DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
oral
chicken 		lowest published toxic dose: 39.2 gm/kg/4 week- intermittent Related to Chronic Data: Death in the "MULTIPLE DOSE" data type field HBTME* -,407,2007


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,2007
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value Not classifiable as human carcinogen DTLVS* TLV/BEI,2007


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, JUL2008
Occupational Exposure Limit - BELGIUM time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, MAR2002
Occupational Exposure Limit - DENMARK time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, OCT 2002
Occupational Exposure Limit - EC time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, FEB 2006
Occupational Exposure Limit - FINLAND time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - FRANCE VME 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, FEB2006
Occupational Exposure Limit - GERMANY MAK 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3 (inhalable), 2005
Occupational Exposure Limit - HUNGARY time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, short term exposure limit 2 mg(Ba)/m3, SEP2000
Occupational Exposure Limit - KOREA time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, 2006
Occupational Exposure Limit - MEXICO time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, 2004
Occupational Exposure Limit - THE NETHERLANDS MAC-TGG 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, 2003
Occupational Exposure Limit - NEW ZEALAND time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN2002
Occupational Exposure Limit - NORWAY time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - THE PHILIPPINES time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - POLAND MAC(time-weighted average) 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, short term exposure limit 1.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWEDEN time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JUN2005
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWITZERLAND MAK- week 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3;
KZG- week 1 mg(Ba)/m3, DEC2006
Occupational Exposure Limit - TURKEY time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - UNITED KINGDOM time-weighted average 0.5 mg(Ba)/m3, 2005
Occupational Exposure Limit IN ARGENTINA, BULGARIA, COLOMBIA, JORDAN American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value;

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


NIOSH DOCUMENTATION AND SURVEILLANCE:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD or SURVEY
REFERENCE
National Occupational Hazard Survey 1974 National Occupational Hazard Survey 1974: Hazard Code: 84519;
Number of Industries 5;
Total Number of Facilities 203;
Number of Occupations 7;
Total Number of Employees Exposed 949
National Occupational Exposure Survey 1983 National Occupational Exposure Survey 1983: Hazard Code: 84519;
Number of Industries 4;
Total Number of Facilities 56;
Number of Occupations 11;
Total Number of Employees Exposed 2,719;
Total Number of Female Employees Exposed 759


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
EQSSDX Environmental Quality and Safety, Supplement. (Stuttgart, Fed. Rep. Ger.) V.1-5, 1975-76. Discontinued.
HBTME*
MarJV# Personal Communication from J.V. Marhold, VUOS, 539-18, Pardubice, Czechoslavakia, Mar. 29, 1977
TXAPA9 Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. (Academic Press, Inc., 1 E. First St., Duluth, MN 55802) V.1- 1959-

Used as a mordant for printing fabrics, in lubricating oil and grease, as a catalyst

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

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