(Antimony Trioxide)

SECTION 2: Hazards identification

Potential health effects

Eye Contact: Dust can cause eye irritation. Symptoms include stinging, tearing, redness, and swelling of eyes. Skin Contact: May cause skin irritation. Symptoms may include redness, burning, and swelling of skin. Additional symptoms of skin contact may include: antimony measles (a red, pimply rash). This material is unlikely to pass into the body through the skin. Ingestion: Swallowing small amounts of this material during normal handling is not likely to cause harmful effects. Swallowing large amounts may be harmful. Inhalation: This material is a dust or may produce dust. Breathing small amounts of this material during normal handling is not likely to cause harmful effects. Breathing large amounts may be harmful. Symptoms usually occur at air concentrations higher than the recommended exposure limits (See Section 8). Prolonged or repeated breathing of dust may result in progressive and permanent lung disease (fibrosis) which may cause death from respiratory and/or heart failure. Symptoms include coughing and difficult breathing which becomes worse with physical activity. Symptoms of Exposure: Signs and symptoms of exposure to this material through breathing, swallowing, and/or passage of the material through the skin may include: mouth and throat irritation (soreness, dry or scratchy feeling, cough), stomach or intestinal upset (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea), irritation (nose, throat, airways), effects on breathing rate. Target Organ Effects: Overexposure to this material (or its components) has been suggested as a cause of the following effects in laboratory animals: cardiovascular effects, blood abnormalities, liver abnormalities, anemia, lung damage. Developmental Information: This material (or a component) has been shown to cause harm to the fetus in laboratory animal studies. Harm to the fetus occurs only at exposure levels that harm the pregnant animal. The relevance of these findings to humans is uncertain.

Cancer information

This material (or a component) causes cancer in laboratory animals and therefore may present a carcinogenic risk to humans. This material (or a component) is listed as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Other Health Effects

No data

Principle Routes of Exposure

Inhalation, Skin contact, Eye contact