MUSK XYLENE

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

  Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment.

  Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment. Classified under the CLPEU regulation that classifies chemicals by their hazards (EC No 1272/2008). Regulation: hazardous to the aquatic environment, short term, category 1 (Aquatic Acute 1); hazardous to the aquatic environment, long term, category 1 (Aquatic Chronic 1).

• Read on the label

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

Allowed with restrictions

Product type

All cosmetic products, with the exception of oral products Note: 'Due to environmental concerns, musk xylene is included in the authorisation list (Annex IV) of REACH. Musk xylene cannot be placed on the market or used unless authorisation has been granted under REACH’

Maximum concentration

(a) 1.0% in fine fragrance (b) 0.4% in eau de toilette (c) 0.03% in other products

Entry

Annex III, No 96

Substance

5-tert-Butyl-2,4,6-trinitro-m-xylene

Glossary names

MUSK XYLENE

CAS

81-15-2

EC

201-329-4

Identity

CosIng identifier

56999

CAS (according to CosIng)

81-15-2

EC (according to CosIng)

201-329-4

Declared functions

Fragrance, Perfuming

Wikidata

Q425330

PubChem

62329

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.001.210

InChIKey

XMWRWTSZNLOZFN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

musk xylene; 5-tert-butyl-2,4,6-trinitro-m-xylene

Carcinogenicity, category 2 (Carc. 2)

Hazard classes

Explosive, category 1.1 (Expl. 1.1)
Carcinogenicity, category 2 (Carc. 2)
Hazardous to the aquatic environment, short term, category 1 (Aquatic Acute 1)
Hazardous to the aquatic environment, long term, category 1 (Aquatic Chronic 1)

Hazard statements

H201 H351 H400 H410

CLP notes

T

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Allowed with restrictions (Annex III)

Same entries as in the European Union. Conditions (concentrations, warnings) may differ: they are not compared here.

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

• Restricted: 머스크자일렌 (MUSK XYLENE)

  별표 2, 기타 (other substances with limits), entry 22, page 30-31. Limit: ․향수류 향료원액을 8% 초과하여 함유하는 제품에 1.0%,향료원액을 8% 이하로 함유하는 제품에 0.4% ․기타 제품에 0.03%.