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To: Morgana
The Material Safety Data Sheet, mandated by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration and provided by the chemical's manufacturer, says, "No specific information is available in our data base regarding the toxic effects of this material for humans."

I used to work in the chem industry. I cannot imagine a safety data sheet reading like this!!! You couldn't put distilled water in a 2 ounce bottle and take it into a customer facility with out all kinds if tox tests, LD50's, etc. And a frothing agent is sold in bulk quantities and is not an "unusual" chemical for coal...used very often. So something is darned fishy here! Either this stuff is known as harmless and the EPA is using it to help shut down the coal industry...OR...somebody I charge if the MSDS totally screwed up at OSHA either because of stupidity or complicity. I wouldn't rule out either.

11 posted on 01/11/2014 6:33:57 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
I used to work in the chem industry. I cannot imagine a safety data sheet reading like this!!!

There are two MSDS posted on the Huntington News site along with links to some other info:

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/79886

This one is the MSDS that “no data available”: 4-Methyl-1-cyclohexanemethanol

This one, is more recent( Revision Date 2012-03-05) and complies with the newer MSDS standard and format including the pictograms. Methylcyclohexane

FWIW and in disclosure, I am not a chemist nor do I work in the chemical industry but I do work for a manufacturer with a very robust safety program which includes monthly safety training for everyone in the company, even for us “morons” in HR/PR : ), . We recently had two mandatory training classes on the new MSDS’s. Not to say that makes me at all qualified to assess the danger or toxicity of this chemical or any other but I agree that the first MSDS seems to be outdated and I have never seen one with so much information labeled “not available” or “not in our database”.

14 posted on 01/11/2014 12:03:28 PM PST by MD Expat in PA
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