[Lewis, R.J. Sr. (ed) Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 11th Edition. Wiley-Interscience, Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ. 2004., p. 1817] **PEER REVIEWED**
[JECFA; FAO Nutrition Meetings Rpt Ser No. 38A: Specifications for Identity and Purity and Toxicological Evaluation of Some Antimicrobials and Antioxidants- Formic Acid (1965). Available from, as of July 13, 2005: http://www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/v38aje03.htm **PEER REVIEWED**
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[Lewis, R.J. Sr. (ed) Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 11th Edition. Wiley-Interscience, Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ. 2004.., p. 1817] **PEER REVIEWED**
[Lewis, R.J. Sr. (ed) Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 11th Edition. Wiley-Interscience, Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ. 2004.., p. 1817] **PEER REVIEWED**
[Lewis, R.J. Sr. (ed) Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 11th Edition. Wiley-Interscience, Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ. 2004., p. 1817] **PEER REVIEWED**
[European Chemicals Bureau; IUCLID Dataset, Formic acid (64-18-6) (2000 CD-ROM edition). Available from, as of July 14, 2005: http://esis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ **PEER REVIEWED**
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--- This e-mail is from DCHAS-L, the e-mail list of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety. For more information about the list, contact the Divisional secretary at secretary**At_Symbol_Here**dchas.orgIs it just me, or is the following entry in the Wikipedia entry on formic acid misleading, or even deceptive?How can they say it is "low toxicity"?"Safety
Formic acid has low toxicity [emphsis added] (hence its use as a food additive), with an LD50 of 1.8 g/kg (oral, mice). The concentrated acid is corrosive to the skin.[6]"
Farther below in the same section, however, it says the OSHA PEL is 30 ppm. Elsewhere it gives the NFPA hazard codes: H=3, F=2, R=1.~Barry Ferm
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