A chemical disinfectant and sterilant for medical and dental equipment and instruments.
Special Precautions:Keep away from food. Avoid prolonged and repeated contact with skin. Prevent eye contact.

Health Hazards:

Eye Contact-Use safety precautions to prevent direct contact with liquid. Liquid contact can cause severe irritation and may cause severe irreversible injury. The vapour is irritating and will cause stinging sensations and excess tearing.

Skin Contact:Avoid direct contact. Repeated or prolonged contact may cause brown staining, drying and cracking of the skin (dermatitis). Contact with solutions or the vapour have resulted in skin sensitization (allergic contact dermatitis) in some individuals, with symptoms such as rashes, reddening and scaling of hands, wrists, arms and face.

Ingestion: Do not ingest. Causes severe gastrointestinal irritation based on animal information and information on other aldehydes.

Inhalation: Use in a well ventilated area. Glutaraldehyde is a moderate to strong irritant and inhalation can cause nose and throat as well as eye irritation. Chest discomfort and tightness and breathing difficulty may also occur. The TLV-C of 0.2ppm is almost certainly being exceeded if the vapour is sufficiently concentrated to be irritating.

First Aid Procedures:

Eye:Immediately flush contaminated eye(s) with an eye wash unit providing a minimum of 4 gallons of water per minute continuously for 15 mins with hands-free, stay open feature and a prevention design to insure hot water will not accidentally harm the worker.
If an eye wash station is not available flush with lukewarm, gently flowing water for at least 15 minutes (timed by a clock) while holding eyelid(s) open. Do not interrupt flushing. Take care not to rinse contaminated water into unaffected eye. Get medical attention immediately.

Skin: As quickly as possible, flush contaminated area with lukewarm gently running water for at least 20-30 minutes while removing contaminated clothing. Get medical attention. completely decontaminate clothing, shoes, watch bands and belts before re-use or discard.

Ingestion:Never give anything by mouth is victim is rapidly losing consciousness, is unconscious or convulsing. Have victim rinse mouth thoroughly with water. DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING. Have victim drink about 300mls (10 oz.) of water or milk if available. If vomiting occurs naturally, rinse mouth and repeat administration of water. Obtain medical attention immediately.

Inhalation:Move victim to fresh air. Support breathing if neccesary. Seek medical attention immediately.

Disposal:Triple rinse the container with water and dispose in an incinerator or in an approved landfill. Do not reuse empty containers. Solutions to be discarded can be "neutralized" with Glutacide neutralizer (sodium metabisulphite) and flushed to sewer with a large volume of water. A glutaraldehyde levels of <10ppm, no detrimental effect on functioning waste water treatment systems or the environment have been observed.