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title: "Metalworking fluids: exposure limits and sampling"
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Hazard search

# Metalworking fluids

CAS number

No CAS number

Also known as

Machining fluid · Metal removing fluid · Metalworking fluids (aerosols) · Metalworking fluids (thoracic particulates) · Metalworking fluids (total particulates) · Metalworking fluids (water-mix) · MWF

## UK workplace exposure limits

Our data hold no UK limit for this substance.

## Sampling methods

| Method | Sampling | Medium | Analysis | Part numbers |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **MDHS 95/2** | Active (pump) |  | AAS/ICP-AES | [225-70A](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/haz-dust-7204-particulate-monitor/#part-225-70a) / [225-1930](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/mixed-cellulose-ester-membrane-filters/#part-225-1930) |
| **NIOSH 5524** / Metalworking fluids by Gravimetric analysis (total inhalable) / [Method document (opens in a new tab)](http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2003-154/pdfs/5524.pdf) | Active (pump) | 2µm PTFE filter in cassette | GR | 225-27-07 / [225-4](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/sureseal-cassette-blanks/#part-225-4) / [225-1](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/aluminium-respirable-dust-cyclone/#part-225-1) / [225-17-33](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/ptfe-polytetrafluoroethylene-filters/#part-225-17-33) / [225-2LF](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/sureseal-cassette-blanks/#part-225-2lf) / [225-27](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/disposable-parallel-particle-impactors/#part-225-27) / [225-381](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/parallel-particle-impactors-ppis/#part-225-381) / 225-388 / [225-26](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/disposable-parallel-particle-impactors/#part-225-26) |
| **ASTM D7049** / Metal removal fluid by Gravimetric analysis / [Method document (opens in a new tab)](http://www.astm.org/Standards/D7049.htm) | Active (pump) | 2µm PTFE filter in cassette | GR | 225-27-07 / [225-2LF](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/sureseal-cassette-blanks/#part-225-2lf) / [225-1](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/aluminium-respirable-dust-cyclone/#part-225-1) / [225-17-33](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/ptfe-polytetrafluoroethylene-filters/#part-225-17-33) / [225-27](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/disposable-parallel-particle-impactors/#part-225-27) |

Methods and limits as published by their agencies and summarised by SKC; check the current method and the limit that applies to you before sampling.

Source: [SKC Ltd (UK), Hazard Search, used with SKC's permission (opens in a new tab)](https://www.skcltd.com/hazard-search.html); [SKC Inc. (USA), Sampling Guides, used with SKC's permission (opens in a new tab)](https://international.skcinc.com/sampling-guides/)