Wikipedia:Chemical safety

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Ordinarily, the safety section should be brief. Editors recognize that all chemical compounds could be abused and can be dangerous under diverse circumstances. Instead, for safety information, the reader's attention should default to the MSDS, which should be a priority entry in all ChemBoxes. Paraphrases from MSDS's or related sources are rarely useful. In cases where the mechanism of toxicity is noteworthy, e.g. the inhibition of myoglobin by

Wikipedia:Reliable sources (medicine-related articles)
should be consulted as a general guideline.

As indicated by Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, editors are discouraged from providing advice about poisons or emergencies associated with chemical compounds: "a Wikipedia article should not read like a how-to style manual of instructions, advice (legal, medical, or otherwise) or suggestions."