Registration Dossier
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EC number: 208-167-3 | CAS number: 513-77-9
Endpoint summary
Administrative data
Description of key information
Key value for chemical safety assessment
Skin sensitisation
Endpoint conclusion
- Endpoint conclusion:
- no adverse effect observed (not sensitising)
- Additional information:
Skin sensitization data are available for the structural analogue, barium chloride. The toxicity of barium carbonate and barium chloride may reasonably be considered to be determined by availability of Ba2+cations. As a first surrogate for bioavailability, the water solubility of a test substance may be used. Barium carbonate is poorly soluble in water whereas barium chloride is well water soluble. Read-across from soluble to the poorly soluble barium compound is considered acceptable because toxicokinetic data on the poorly soluble barium carbonate indicates a markedly lesser bioavailability than the soluble barium chloride. Based on the available information, barium carbonate is expected to be not sensitizing to skin.
Respiratory sensitisation
Endpoint conclusion
- Endpoint conclusion:
- no adverse effect observed (not sensitising)
Justification for classification or non-classification
Sensitisation:
The reference Stitzinger (2010) is considered as the key study on skin sensitisation and will be used for classification. The overall sensitisation results are as follows:
Local lymph node assay (LLNA) in mice
SIs of less than 3.0 (1.2 – 1.5) were observed at all test concentrations of barium chloride dihydrate (5, 10, 25 %) and no dose response could be observed. Therefore, an EC3 value (the estimated concentration required to induce a threshold positive response, i.e., SI = 3) for the test substance under the conditions of the study was not calculable. Thus, the classification criteria acc. to regulation (EC) 1272/2008 as skin sensitizer are not met and barium chloride has not being labelled as such.
Respiratory sensitisation:
Based on an industry survey, during long-year industrial practice no cases of hypersensitivity were observed till now by workers exposed exclusively to barium carbonate. Thus, no classification as respiratory sensitiser according to regulation (EC) 1272/2008 is required.
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