BARIUM CHLORIDE

What official classifications and rules say for each group. A classification describes the hazard of the pure substance, not the risk of a product that contains it, which depends on the dose and the exposure.

Prohibition or serious classificationThe text prohibits the substance for this use, or ranks it among the most serious hazards (known or presumed carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic, identified endocrine disruptor).Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment.For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance.

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding

  No classification harmonised by the European Union covers reproduction, the unborn child or breastfeeding for this substance. This does not mean it has been judged to have no effect during pregnancy.

• Babies and children

  The Cosmetics Regulation sets no age-related condition for this ingredient.

• Skin, eyes and allergies

  No official classification for sensitisation, irritation or eye damage, and no obligation to label it as an allergen.

• Environment

  No harmonised classification as hazardous to the aquatic environment, and it is not on ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency.'s Candidate List as an endocrine disruptor for the environment.

• Read on the label

  The Cosmetics Regulation requires no warning to be printed for this ingredient.

Prohibited, with exceptions

CosIngThe European Commission's database of cosmetic ingredients. links the name BARIUM CHLORIDE to this entry. The cases of prohibition are explained above, in “In plain words”; the official title is given below.

Entry

Annex II, No 46

Substance

Barium salts, with the exception of barium sulphide under the conditions laid down in Annex III and of barium sulfate, lakes, salts and pigments prepared from the colouring agents when listed in Annex IV

Identity

CosIng identifier

85025

CAS (according to CosIng)

10361-37-2

EC (according to CosIng)

233-788-1

barium chloride

Neither carcinogenic, mutagenic nor toxic for reproduction under the harmonised classification

Hazard classes

Acute toxicity, category 3 (Acute Tox. 3)
Acute toxicity, category 4 (Acute Tox. 4)

Hazard statements

H301 H332

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Prohibited, with exceptions (Annex II)

Same entries as in the European Union. Their maximum concentrations are compared in the “Comparison between countries” table; other conditions (product types, warnings) may differ.

Switzerland

Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 applies in Switzerland (Article 54 of the Ordinance on Foodstuffs and Utility Articles).

United States, federal rules

None of the integrated sections of the federal code (21 CFR 700.11 to 700.27 and 250.250) targets this name. The FDA does not publish a list of allowed ingredients.

South Korea

• Prohibited: 바륨염(바륨설페이트 및 색소레이크희석제로 사용한 바륨염은 제외) (BARIUM CHLORIDE)

  별표 1 (prohibited substances), entry 324, page 17.

  Conditions, source text, in Korean

  화학물질명: 바륨클로라이드 (CAS No. 10361-37-2) | 화학물질명: 바륨글루코네이트 (CAS No. 22561-74-6) | 화학물질명: 바륨헥사페라이트 (CAS No. 12047-11-9)