Cryotech CMA^® - Environment

Environment and Toxicology

• CMA research conducted in a variety of academic and private laboratories indicates that negative environmental and toxicological impacts are highly unlikely from its use as a deicer. Of the information collected it can be said that:
• Concentrations used to deice roads have little to no toxic effects on grass, trees or roadside vegetation;
• Has little to no toxic effects on aquatic species, including vertebrates and invertebrates;
• Does not mobilize pre-existing heavy metals;
• Does not increase algae, periphyton or phytoplankton biomass;
• Is unlikely to cause problems in treatment plants receiving CMA in storm water runoff;
• Is unlikely to have significant negative impacts on dissolved oxygen in receiving water;
• Has low acute mammalian toxicity with effects similar or less severe than those of sodium chloride.