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Table 6 EHS assessment of the solvents used in this work (ethyl acetate & methanol) as well as the reported one (acetonitrile)

From: A green TLC densitometric method for the simultaneous detection and quantification of naphazoline HCl, pheniramine maleate along with three official impurities

Selected substance

Safety

Health

Environment

Totala

Release potential

Fire/Explosion

Reaction/Decomposition

Acute toxicity

Irritation

Chronic toxicity

Persistency

Air Hazard

Water Hazard

Acetonitrile

0.61

1.00

0.60

0.51

0.63

0.43

0.34

0.43

0.00

4.55

Ethyl acetate

0.62

1.00

0.00

0.28

0.63

0.17

0.03

0.17

0.00

2.89

Methanol

0.65

1.00

0.00

0.27

0.11

0.32

0.00

0.32

0.00

2.66

  1. aObtained by summation of nine main categories scores