Safety and Hazards
Information on safety and hazards for this compound, including safety/hazards properties, reactivity, incompatibilities, management techniques, first aid treatments, and more. For toxicity and related information, please see the Toxicity section.
Hazards Identification
This section identifies the hazards of the chemical presented on the safety data sheet (SDS) and the appropriate warning information associated with those hazards. The information in this section includes, but are not limited to, the hazard classification of the chemical, signal word, pictograms, hazard statements and precautionary statements.
GHS Classification
GHS (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals) is a United Nations system to identify hazardous chemicals and to inform users about these hazards. GHS has been adopted by many countries around the world and is now also used as the basis for international and national transport regulations for dangerous goods. The GHS hazard statements, class categories, pictograms, signal words, and the precautionary statements can be found on the PubChem GHS page.
This chemical does not meet GHS hazard criteria for 0.7% (3 of 441) of reports.
Warning
H302 (96.4%): Harmful if swallowed [Warning Acute toxicity, oral]
H319 (83.7%): Causes serious eye irritation [Warning Serious eye damage/eye irritation]
H361 (24.5%): Suspected of damaging fertility or the unborn child [Warning Reproductive toxicity]
H361d (23.8%): Suspected of damaging the unborn child [Warning Reproductive toxicity]
Aggregated GHS information provided per 441 reports by companies from 22 notifications to the ECHA C&L Inventory. Each notification may be associated with multiple companies.
Reported as not meeting GHS hazard criteria per 3 of 441 reports by companies.
There are 21 notifications provided by 438 of 441 reports by companies with hazard statement code(s).
Information may vary between notifications depending on impurities, additives, and other factors. The percentage value in parenthesis indicates the notified classification ratio from companies that provide hazard codes. Only hazard codes with percentage values above 10% are shown. For more detailed information, please visit ECHA C&L website.ECHA C&L website.
Warning
H302: Harmful if swallowed [Warning Acute toxicity, oral]
P264, P270, P301+P317, P330, and P501
(The corresponding statement to each P-code can be found at the GHS Classification page.)
Hazard Classes and Categories
The Hazard Classes and Categories are aligned with GHS (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals) hazard statement codes. The percentage data in the parenthesis from ECHA indicates that the hazard classes and categories information are consolidated from multiple companies. Also, see the detailed explanation from the above GHS classification section.
Acute Tox. 4 (96.4%)
Eye Irrit. 2 (83.7%)
Repr. 2 (24.5%)
Repr. 2 (23.8%)
Acute toxicity - category 4
Regulatory Information
This section lists the regulations related to the safety, health, and environment of the chemical and its associated products. The regulatory information, which may encompass national and/or regional regulations pertaining to the chemical or mixtures, is presented solely for informational purposes. For additional details, please consult the links to the information sources provided under each data entry.
Chemical: Benzoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, sodium salt (1:1)
Status: Active Update: 17-06-2020 https://echa.europa.eu/registration-dossier/-/registered-dossier/13593
Sodium salicylate: Does not have an individual approval but may be used under an appropriate group standard
Other Safety Information
Miscellaneous safety information for this chemical that is not shown in other sections, such as history, incidents, special reports, and so on.
IMAP assessments - Salicylic acid and its salts: Human health tier II assessment