Methanol Safety Resources

Methanol Product Stewardship - A fact sheet from the Methanol Institute that highlights the industry's committment ot safe handling and proper care of the methanol molecule.

Methanol Health Effects - An overview of the health effects of methanol exposure.

Methanol Safe Handling Take Home Tips - A smaller, take home document, built from the larger Methanol Safe Handling Manual.

Methanol Safe Handling Manual - The definitive guide to methanol storage, transport and handling in the workplace.

NSTA Laboratory Safe Handling Overview - An alcohol in the laboratory safe handling document created by the National Science Teachers Assoication (www.nsta.org).

Methanol Emergency Response - Methanol Institute's brief emergency response overview fact sheet.

Methanol IUCLID Health Assessment Data Set - A detailed health assessment for methanol completed by the International Uniform Chemical Information Database, July 2004.

Methanex TISH Guide - A Technical Information and Safe Handling Guide for methanol by Methanex, September 2006.

MI Comments on Formaldehyde IRIS Review, August 2010 - A letter from MI to the EPA regarding the draft IRIS toxicological review of formaldehyde.

MI Comments on IRIS Draft Review, March 2010 - Comments from MI on the U.S. EPA Draft Toxicological Review of Methanol

Weight of Evidence Evaluation of Methanol as a Human Carcinogen

Toxicology for Excellence Risk Assessment (TERA) Methanol Final Report - A report on the peer review of two methanol bioassays, March 2010.

EPA Press Release: IRIS Assessments on Hold, June 2010 - A press release from the U.S. EPA regarding four IRIS assessments under review.

EPL: 18-Month Methanol in Mice Study - An eighteen month review of pathology data of Japan NEDO mouse study by Environmental Pathology Laboratories, Inc, October 2007.

EPL: 24-Month Methanol in Mice Study - A twenty-four month review of pathology data of Japan NEDO mouse study by Environmental Pathology Laboratories, Inc, October 2007.

EPA Peer Review of NEDO Methanol - An external peer review of Japan NEDO methanol studies, June 2009.

Ramazzini Study Review - An evaluation of the Ramazzini Foundation's carcinogenicity studies by ENVIRON International Corporation, October 2007.

ToxWorks Evaluation of Ramazzini Foundation Methanol Study - An evaluation of the Ramazzini Foundation study of methanol in drinking water in Sprague-Dawley rats, March 2008.

University of Toronto Methanol Study - A report on the molecular basis of methanol developmental toxicity and implications for carcinogenic potential, November 2010.

University of Toronto Methanol Study - Appendix - Appendix to the November 2010 methanol study conducted by Peter G. Wells, Pharm.D.

EPA PWG Release: April 11, 2011 - A press release by the U.S. EPA announcing the formation of an independent Pathology Working Group to review the Ramazzini Foundation's methanol assessment.

MI Statement on IRIS Review Hold, June 15, 2010 - An MI press release supporting EPA's thorough review of the Ramazzini Foundation's health assessment of methanol through a Pathology Working Group.

MI Safety DVD Press Release, April 2010 - An MI press release introducing the "Methanol Safe Handling: A User's Guide" DVD.

Methanol Safe Handling Presentation - A presentation on methanol safety given by MI's Greg Dolan to wastewater treatment plant workers in Prince William County, Virginia.