RTECS NUMBER : YW1355000
CHEMICAL NAME : Vanadium
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER : 7440-62-2
LAST UPDATED : 199712
DATA ITEMS CITED : 11
MOLECULAR FORMULA : V
MOLECULAR WEIGHT : 50.94
WISWESSER LINE NOTATION : .VA
COMPOUND DESCRIPTOR : Tumorigen
*** HEALTH HAZARD DATA ***
** ACUTE TOXICITY DATA **
TYPE OF TEST : LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE : Subcutaneous
SPECIES OBSERVED : Rodent - rabbit
DOSE/DURATION : 59 mg/kg
TOXIC EFFECTS :
Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value
REFERENCE :
FATOAO Farmakologiya i Toksikologiya (Moscow). For English translation, see
PHTXA6 and RPTOAN. (V/O Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, 113095 Moscow, USSR) V.2-
1939- Volume(issue)/page/year: 28,83,1965
** TUMORIGENIC DATA **
TYPE OF TEST : TDLo - Lowest published toxic dose
ROUTE OF EXPOSURE : Intramuscular
SPECIES OBSERVED : Rodent - rat
DOSE/DURATION : 340 mg/kg/43W-I
TOXIC EFFECTS :
Tumorigenic - equivocal tumorigenic agent by RTECS criteria
Tumorigenic - tumors at site of application
REFERENCE :
NCIUS* Progress Report for Contract No. PH-43-64-886, Submitted to the
National Cancer Institute by The Institute of Chemical Biology, University
of San Francisco. (San Francisco, CA 94117) Volume(issue)/page/year:
PH43-64-886
*** NIOSH STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT AND SURVEILLANCE DATA ***
NIOSH RECOMMENDED EXPOSURE LEVEL (REL) :
NIOSH REL TO VANADIUM (as V2O5), resp dust/fume-air:CL 0.05 mg/m3/15M
REFERENCE :
NIOSH* National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Dept. of
Health, Education, and Welfare, Reports and Memoranda.
Volume(issue)/page/year: DHHS #92-100,1992
NIOSH OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE SURVEY DATA :
NOHS - National Occupational Hazard Survey (1974)
NOHS Hazard Code - 76165
No. of Facilities: 79 (estimated)
No. of Industries: 3
No. of Occupations: 11
No. of Employees: 3743 (estimated)
NOES - National Occupational Exposure Survey (1983)
NOES Hazard Code - 76165
No. of Facilities: 1725 (estimated)
No. of Industries: 37
No. of Occupations: 68
No. of Employees: 54159 (estimated)
No. of Female Employees: 2658 (estimated)