2-Ethoxyethanol acetate: Health effects
Description
2-Ethoxyethanol acetate can effect you if breathed in and by passing through the skin. It is an irritant to the eyes, mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract. Prolonged contact will cause skin irritation. Exposure to 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate may cause nausea, vomiting and headache. Higher levels of exposure may cause central nervous system depression, blood changes and lung injury. Reproductive disorders may occur. It can cause injury to the bone marrow, blood cells, and testes. Kidney and liver damage have been reported. Exposure to animals has caused testicular damage, foetal death and abnormalities, fertility effects and other reproductive effects. Worksafe Australia has determined that 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate may cause birth defects and be teratogenic (harm a foetus).
Entering the body
2-Ethoxyethyl acetate will enter the body if we breathe in contaminated air, or drink contaminated water. It can also pass through the skin.
Exposure
Workers in the industries that use or produce 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate are at risk of exposure. Consumers can be exposed to 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate by exposure to air from production and processing facilities using 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate, or drinking water which has been contaminated by releases of 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate. Consumers may also be exposed to 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate when using consumer products containing 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate, especially if there is not good ventilation.
Health guidelines
Worksafe Australia:
For 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate it is allowable for workers to be exposed to 5 parts per million over an eight hour workshift. Worksafe Australia has determined that 2-Ethoxyethanol acetate may cause birth defects and be teratogenic (harm a foetus).
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