| Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
are required by law to be provided at no charge by manufacturers or vendors of products
containing hazardous materials (some products are exempt). MSDSs
include information on chemical composition, exposure
limits, potential health effects, first aid procedures, personal protective equipment
requirements, and spill / leak procedures. |
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MSDSs may be obtained in the following manner:
 | They may come with your chemical order. NMSU's Purchase
Orders require that the supplier include the MSDS with the order. |
If they aren't with the order, perhaps they were misplaced
or sent separately to accounting, you should be able to get a copy by contacting the
manufacturer, vendor or representative by phone or via fax. Often the customer service
will gladly send or fax a copy for their product, if you simply can tell them the product
name and/or code number.
| Here's a few phone numbers for suppliers that will provide
MSDSs by fax or mail for their products upon request:
 | JT Baker: (908)
859-6974 |
| Boehringer Mannheim Co, Indianapolis, In 46250 (317)
845-2000 |
| CHEMTREC, (800) 424-9300 |
| Delta Biologicals, Tucson, AZ 85714 (602) 745-7881 |
| Difco Laboratories Inc, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417,
(201)847-6800
 | Detroit, MI 48232, (800) 521-0851 |
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| Fisher
Scientific: Pittsburgh, PA 15205, (800) 766-7000, Note that Fisher's Fax on
Demand System lets you request MSDSs for Fisher and Acros Organics products--faxing the
sheet back to your fax, 24 hours, 7 days a week. - Fax (201) 703-3165 just call
the number and follow the instructions. |
| Flinn Scientific Inc, Batavia, IL, 60510, (800) 452-1261
Fax (630) 879-6962 |
| HACH Company, Ames, IA 50010 (800) 27-4224 |
| ICN Biochemicals, Aurora, OH 44202, (330) 562-1500 |
| LI-COR, www.licor.com,
(402) 467-0700 |
| Life Technologies Inc., Grand Island, NY 14072, (800)
828-6686 |
| Molecular Probes Inc., Eugene, Oregon 97402, (503) 465-8300 |
| National
Gypsum Company 2001 Rexford Road, Charlotte, NC 28211, 1-800-NATIONAL |
| Occidental Chemical
1-800-699-4970 |
| Pennzoil Quaker
State Company, 700 Milam, P.O.Box 2967, Houston, TX 77252-2967; phone
713-546-4000; Web: www.pennzoil-quakerstate.com/contacts/l3_qa_brands.htm |
| Pesticides
& Antimicrobial products - searchable databases of products and manufactures |
| Sigma-Aldrich:
Co., www.sigma-aldrich.com, SAINT LOUIS,
MISSOURI 63178, (314) 771-57651 or 800-325-3010 |
| Texaco Inc., 2000 Westchester Ave. White Plains, NY 10650;
1-800 782-7852 or (914) 253-4000; Fax (:877) 276-7285; E-mail ASKTIC asktic@texaco.com Call the (800) number to request an
MSDS from either the automated system or a Texaco representative. |
| USB United States Biochemical Co., Cleveland, OH 44122,
(216) 765-5000 |
| VWR
Scientific (Van Waters &Rogers) 800-932-5000 (610) 431-1700 |
| Valspar Corporation 612-375-7303; Fax 612-375-7393 - for
MSDSs call or fax list with product number on the product label (not UPC code). |
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| MSDSs are also
available from many suppliers via the internet as many have MSDSs on their web
site. For example over 90,000 Sigma-Aldrich MSDSs are now available at their web
site. You may search by product number, product name or CAS number. Click
on the above link and find the manufacture to search for your product. |
 The above page has recently been updated and now has over 700 links to
different manufactures and suppliers.
| A collection of several thousand MSDSs can be found at
Environmental Health and Safety office. We have several file cabinets filled with
MSDSs! Contact Bea Pacheco (646-3327) for
assistance in obtaining these. |
| The Biology department also has a collection of many MSDSs
and links to MSDS. These can be found at Biology, Foster Hall Room 130, Foster Hall
or contact Linda S. Perez,
Safety Coordinator 646-3915 |
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