Toluene - Exposure Risks & Concerns
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2015
- Toluene (C7H8) is a volatile organic compound (VOC) that is widely used in industry. It is a clear, colorless liquid with a strong, sweet and pungent odor that occurs naturally in crude oil. It is also produced in the process of making gasoline and other fuels from crude oil and making coke from coal. Toluene is used in making numerous products, such as paints, paint thinners, fingernail polish, spot removers, lacquers, adhesives, rubber, antifreeze, and in some printing and leather tanning processes.
According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the largest industrial use of toluene is in the production of benzene, a chemical used to make plastics and synthetic fibers. Toluene is also used to boost the octane of gasoline.
People can be exposed to toluene both indoors and outdoors by breathing automobile exhaust, pumping gasoline, consuming contaminated food or water, or using other products that contain toluene, such as kerosene, heating oil, paints and lacquers. In the work environment, people can be exposed to toluene by breathing contaminated air or through skin contact.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states, “The central nervous system (CNS) is the primary target organ for toluene toxicity in both humans and animals for acute (short-term) and chronic (long-term) exposures.” Exposure to low to moderate levels can cause tiredness, confusion, weakness, memory loss, nausea, loss of appetite, and hearing and color vision loss. Exposure to high levels can result in unconsciousness and even death.
Toluene has been listed since 1991 on California’s Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. There are test methods to identify toluene from both indoor and outdoor environments.
These are just a few things to know about toluene and potential exposure concerns for workers and the public. To learn more about this or other indoor air quality, health and safety, occupational or other environmental issues, please visit the websites shown below.
Clark Seif Clark www.csceng.com
EMSL Analytical, Inc. www.emsl.com
Indoor Environmental Consultants, Inc. www.iecinc.net
LA Testing www.latesting.com
Zimmetry Environmental www.zimmetry.com
Healthy Indoors Magazine www.iaq.net
Hudson Douglas Public Adjusters HudsonDouglasPublicAdjusters.com
I love how all the ways it is harmful is said in such a cheerful manner.🤭 "Exposure can cause .... and even death" said like it's a holiday he's promoting!
I used to Huff Toluene, it's very Psychoactive and gives some awesome trips, though not so much on its own.
Though I haven't huffed for over 30 years now!
Hair dye hasn't been mentioned. It's inside all the products. The ones you can buy in a drugstore and the ones at the hairdresser's, too. I am highly allergic to Toluene and mustn't get in contact with it. It's about time that they develop a hair dye product without it! Henna powder and other herbs aren't really an alternative because it's not possible to achieve lighter tones.
Does hair bleach have toluene in it?
Use peroxide
It is also in wood smoke under high-heat conditions.
Hi ; can u tell me by which mechanism that the toluene cause renal damages which lead to ( hyperchloridemia , metabolic acidosis , and protein in urine ) . I look for that in many websites without any result and i need that for my presentation tomorrow. If u know any thing for that, please answer me
Wow I should've gone to the hospital when I spilled concentrated toluene on my hand when I was preparing a solution in the lab at school. I mean it really messed me up. I was dizzy, confused, tired, and threw up a couple times.
Watching this because I believe it damaged my brain by a single exposure. Having extreme tinitus now.
I was exposed at work for 10 months using toluene based liquids with moderate use of PPE. Which type of doctor can I go to to get tested? Should i be concerned? I quit that job because i stop liking working with chemicals
Paramount glue that labs use to mount insitu with cell growth up onto a microscope slide for analysis under scope. I was breathing that for 10 years at work. Suffered a miscarriage and had difficulty getting pregnant after that.
I work with virgin and reclaimed toluene on a daily basis. Always wear an air fed mask when around the substance.
Heck yes they gave me some 3M breather with the changeable filters cause i gotta refill the bottles every so days a week
@@UriahD85 3m arnt fit to work with toluene. Which part of the world do you live?
@@markcromwell1975 aviation working on Hueys in NZ, they gave me this box with all this equipment for this hectic looking mask with all sorts of shit, well mind I'm not just refilling toluene, IPA, MEK, Brake clealers, Acetone, Prepsol, Perkote, MS, Blue Av-Gas etc
@@UriahD85 I work with exactly the same chemicals. MEK is the worst. It can actually change you're dna. Very dangerous and it smells vile. Get an airfed mask 3m products are fine for dust etc but not MEK mate. Stay safe.👍
@@markcromwell1975 damn so the reusable gas & vapor respirators are a lemon then.
www.3mnz.co.nz/3M/en_NZ/safety-centers-of-expertise-nz/respiratory-protection/respirator-selection/
We use toluene as a thinning agent where I work, it just sits in buckets on the floor. We use it to clean machines and maintain a certain viscosity for different acrylic coatings.
So if this is in my guitar should I be worried?
Sim Card just don’t smoke your guitar
It's pretty good but the sound is very low
🤣🤣🤣
And it’s in my vitamin d3 ???
Modern unleaded gasoline is almost 30% toluene.
really?
Why is it in food? known as tbhq ha
I make ink for a living I get more then enough exposure.
How are you doing?
@@jesusa.2927 alive
And this is inside silicone implants that can rupture and leak Into the body and cause all kinds of problems ☹️
no they aren't lmfao
@@SomeRandomPiggo fucking imagine lmao
is that how it's pronounced?
yes, how did you think it was?
TOL-yoo-een
not
TOL-yoo-leen
tall-you-een
I like how you're mispronouncing the word the entire video
What the hell are you talking about, I'm perfectly safe! I promise! I definitely don't collect the souls of every human I kill, no siree!
Wow this is extremely dangerous