Is Allyl bromide Toxic?

Allyl Bromide can cause severe eye and skin irritation and burns. Breathing Allyl Bromide can irritate the nose, throat and lungs causing coughing, wheezing and/or shortness of breath. 

Acute poisoning of laboratory animals is accompanied by a transient motor agitation followed by depression and loss of balance. Death occurs within 24 hours. Allyl bromide is considered as one of the most toxic of the halogenated hydrocarbons, causing deaths in experimental animals exposed for 4 hr to concentrations as low as 1 mg/L. It is mutagenic but there is no evidence that it is carcinogenic. Target organs are gastrointestinal system, eyes, skin, respiratory system. 

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