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  Colorless to
yellow liquid, with a pungent characteristic odour.
Soluble in water generally in alcohol.
Glutaraldehyde is a strongly irritating agent both for the skin and the
mucous membranes and has a penetrating smell (olfactory threshold: 0.04
ppm). It is a lightly cutaneous irritant, sensitization phenomenons may
occur.
Recent studies seem to exclude mutagenic and cancerogenic effects, but
Central Nervous System and teratogenic effects in animals have been
described.
Widely used as sporicide, bactericide, virucidal and fungicide in
sterilization procedures by immersing medical equipments.
The ceiling fixed by ACGIH is 0.02 ppm, but this can be easily overcome
if the sterilization procedure takes place in open containers.
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