(430 ILCS 35/2-4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 252-4)
Sec. 2-4.
"Hazardous substance" means any substance or mixture of substances
which is toxic, corrosive, an irritant, strong sensitizer, flammable, combustible
or which generates pressure through decomposition, heat or other means and
which may cause substantial personal injury or illness during or as a
proximate result of any customary or reasonably anticipated handling or use
including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children and also means any
radioactive substance, if, with respect to such substance as used in a
particular class of article or as packaged, the Director determines by
regulation that the substance is sufficiently hazardous to require labeling
in accordance with this Act in order to protect the public health.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)
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