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RESOURCES > CHEMICAL INFORMATION SHEETS
NTN produces Chemical Information sheets and distributes related community information as HTML documents.
Click on the Chemical Names to see the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS).
To search for an agvet chemical using the product name, try the APVMA database.
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Benzene |
Medicinal chemicals, dyes, plastics, textiles, detergents, artificial leather, varnishes, paints, lacquers, waxes and many other materials. Solvent for inks, paints, rubber, adhesives, coatings, detergent and pesticides. Benzene is found in coal tar distillates, petroleum naphtha and gasoline
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Broad spectrum insecticide used on wide variety of crop types, for the control of locusts and is present in some cattle dips for the control of ticks and lice. Also registered for domestic gardens; as indoor insect control, termiticide, for pet products and commercial and industrial insect control.
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Diazinon is a persistent, broad spectrum organophosphate insecticide used on a wide variety of crops and plants to control sucking and leaf eating insects. It is also used for the control of insects on stock (lice and ticks) particularly, fly strike on sheep. In the home diazinon is often used as an ant killer and for the control of fleas and ticks on domestic pets.
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Endosulphan |
A Schedule 6 (PESKEM) non-systemic insecticide and acaricide with contact and stomach action registered for use on a wide variety of food and non-food crops including ornamentals.
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Ethylene Glycol MonoButyl Ether |
Solvent for nitrocellulose, natural and synthetic resins, soluble oils, lacquers, varnishes and enamels Also used in textile dyeing and printing, in the treatment of leather, in the production of plasticizers, as a stabilizer in metal cleaners and household cleaners, and in hydraulic fluids, insecticides, herbicides and rust removers.
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Fenitrothion |
A Schedule 6 insecticide registered for a wide variety of crop and noncrop uses including buildings, apples, stored grain and tobacco. (Fenitrothion is not registered for food usage in U.S.)
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Flupropinate |
Frenock (formulated product) is an organic compound used as a selective translocated herbicide for the control of Parrammatta Grass.(2) It is Schedule 6 poison.
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Glyphosate |
A Schedule 5 herbicide in the form of the mono(isopropyl ammonium) salt. A broad spectrum (non selective) post-emergent plant growth regulator used for the control of grasses, sedges and broadleaved weeds. A systemic herbicide that translocates to the roots of plants. Used as the active constituent in many commercial herbicide products. Formerly a Monsanto-held patent, glyphosate products are now formulated by a number of pesticide producers. Used in forestry, farming and pastoral activities, local councils, weed control and transport agencies, as well as domestic and industrial uses.
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Toluene |
Used to make chemicals (examples: benzene, toluene diisocyanate, benzoic acid), explosives, dyes and many other compounds. Used as a solvent for inks, paints, lacquers, resins, cleaners, glues and adhesives
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111 Trichlorethane |
Used as a solvent for metal degreasing, natural and synthetic resins, oils, waxes, tar and alkaloids; for adhesives and coatings; for textile-dyeing operations; used in dry-cleaning operations; cleaning electrical machinery; coolant and lubricant in metal-cutting oils; and as extraction solvent and chemical intermediate in the chemical industry
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Xylene |
Xylene is used extensively as feedstock in manufacture of dyes, pharmaceuticals, plastics, as a solvent for paints, lacquers, resins, inks, adhesives, cleansers, degreasers, pesticides, paint strippers and in laboratories.
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New On-Line Children's Environmental Health Resource, Toxicity and Exposure Assessment for Children's Health (TEACH)
TEACH, a project of the U.S. EPA, is a new searchable database containing overviews of scientific literature in the field of children's environmental health risks from chemical exposure.
TEACH currently contains over 1,400 references from January 1972 to January 2003. These references cover information on environmental contaminants that potentially impact children's health and are updated annually.
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