Guidance on how to complete the application for a new or amended medical device licence: Appendix 1, table 1, chemical identity of Bisphenol A

Characteristic Information

Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS) Registry Number

  • 80-05-7

Domestic Substances List name

  • phenol, 4,4' -(1-methylethylidene)bis-

National Chemical Inventories (NCI) namesTable 1 Footnote *

  • phenol, 4,4'-(1-methylethylidene)bis- (TSCA, PICCS, ASIA-PAC)
  • 4,4'-isopropylidenediphenol (EINECS, PICCS)
  • 2,2-Bis(4'-hydroxyphenyl) propane (ENCS)
  • phenol, 4,4'-(1-methylethylidene)bis- (AICS, PICCS)
  • 4,4'-(1-Methylethylidene)bisphenol (ECL)
  • 4,4'-Bisphenol A (ECL)
  • phenol, 4,4'-(1-methylethylidene)bis- (SWISS)
  • bisphenol A (SWISS, PICCS)
  • p,p'-isopropylidene diphenol (PICCS)
  • diphenol  methylethylidene (PICCS)
  • bis[phenol], 4,4'-(1-methylethylidene)- (PICCS)
  • bisphenol-a (PICCS)
  • bisphenol, 4,4'-(1-methylethylidene)- (PICCS)
  • 4,4-isopropylidene diphenyl (PICCS)
  • 4,4'-dihydroxyphenyl-2,2-propane (PICCS)
  • 2,2-di(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane (PICCS)
  • 2,2-di(4-hydroxyphenyl) propane (PICCS)
  • 2,2-bis-(4-hydroxy-phenyl)-propane (PICCS)

Other names

  • bisphenol A
  • diphenylolpropane
  • BPA

Chemical group

Discrete organics

Chemical subgroup

Phenols

Chemical formula

C15H16O2

Chemical structure

Chemical structure

SMILES

Oc(ccc(c1)C(c(ccc(O)c2)c2)(C)C)c1

Table 1 Footnote *

National Chemical Inventories (NCI) 2006:

  • AICS (Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances)
  • ASIA-PAC (Asia-Pacific Substances Lists)_Toc173920654
  • ECL (Korean Existing Chemicals List)
  • EINECS (European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances)
  • ENCS (Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances)
  • PICCS (Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances)
  • SWISS (Inventory of Newly Notified Substances and Giflist 1 - List of Toxic Substances)
  • TSCA (Toxic Substances Control Act Chemical Substance Inventory)

Table 1 Return to footnote * referrer

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