Guidance

Nitric acid: health effects, incident management and toxicology

Information on nitric acid (also known as hydrogen nitrate), for responding to chemical incidents.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 1 July 2014
• Last updated: 7 August 2024
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  1. 7 August 2024

     The 'general information' and 'toxicological overview' content converted to HTML. The content is unchanged. The 'incident management' section has been updated.

  2. 12 January 2018

     Updated toxicological overview.

  3. 16 November 2017

     Updated general information document.

  4. 13 June 2017

     Updated incident management.

  5. 1 July 2014

     First published.

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Nitric acid: general information

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Nitric acid: incident management

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Nitric acid: toxicological overview

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These documents provide information on the health effects of exposure, the chemical’s toxicity and material on responding to a chemical incident.