MSDS

MSDS

I have obtained a Material Safety Data Sheet from Food and Nutrition Department at CPMC St. Luke’s Campus, and I will review one of their cleaning agents from the MSDS.

Product name: OASIS 255SF

Product/ingredient name: d-glucopyranose, oligomeric, decyl octyl glycosides

Recommended use: Class Cleaner
Chemical family: Mixture

Health Risks: This product is harmful to aquatic life and may cause serious eye damage and eye irritation. However, there is no known significant effect or critical hazards for skin contact, inhalation, and ingestion. In the product, there is no known carcinogen found. To protect the eyes, safety glasses and gloves are recommended. Also, good general ventilation should be sufficient to control work exposure to airborne contaminants. When people use this product in a workplace, people should follow the instructions on the label.

Toxnet: in this cleaning product, it also contains ammonium hydroxide. After I researched this chemical compound in the Toxnet, I found some discrepancies between what were reported in MSDS and Toxnet. Ammonium hydroxide is severe skin irritants, may cause permanent eye damage. Moreover, in Toxnet, it also reported ammonium hydroxide may also cause burns of the oral cavity and pharynx, oesophagal or gastric perforation, pulmonary oedema. For chronic effects, ammonium hydroxide can cause urticarial to people.

MSDS Tools: I think this is an adequate tool for helping kitchen workers understand proper techniques to reduce their risk of exposure to harmful cleaning chemicals. If MSDS can provide other language options for workers, it will help workers to understand more thoroughly to the content and minimize chemical exposure to the workers.