Highly Toxic Law and Legal Definition
According to 15 USCS § 1261 (h), [Title 15. Commerce and Trade; Chapter 30. Hazardous Substances]
“(1) The term highly toxic means any substance which falls within any of the following categories: (a) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between two hundred and three hundred grams, at a single dose of fifty milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when orally administered; or (b) produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between two hundred and three hundred grams, when inhaled continuously for a period of one hour or less at an atmospheric concentration of two hundred parts per million by volume or less of gas or vapor or two milligrams per liter by volume or less of mist or dust, provided such concentration is likely to be encountered by man when the substance is used in any reasonable foreseeable manner; or (c) produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more rabbits tested in a dosage of two hundred milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when administered by continuous contact with the bare skin for twenty-four hours or less.
(2) If the Commission finds that available data on human experience with any substance indicate results different from those obtained on animals in the above-named dosages or concentrations, the human data shall take precedence.”
Legal Definition list
- Highly Restricted Personal Information
- Highly Qualified Teacher
- Highly Qualified Paraprofessional [Education]
- Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
- Highly Leveraged Transaction
- Highly Toxic
- Highway Beautification Act
- Highway Bridge Program
- Highway Construction
- Highway Fuel Economy Driving Schedule Energy Consumption Value
- Highway Law
