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C.I. Pigment Red 38

CAS 6358-87-8

Also registered as 3 other CAS numbers

97890-20-5 · 136825-56-4 · 137911-33-2

C.I. Pigment Red 38 chemical structure

Concern score

Not assessed — no hazard data yet.

C.I. Pigment Red 38 in plain language

What it is

Also known as Pigment red 38 · Benzidine red · C.I. 21120 · CI 21120 · Piper red · Dainichi Fast Red BL

Show all 27 names

Disazopyrazolone · Disazopyrazolone (diarylide) · Fanchon Red R 6227 · Irgalite Fast Red PY · Irgaplast Red P · Plasticone Red 10457 · Pyrazolone Red · Pyrazolone Red (Yellowish) R-6258 · Pyrazolone Red B Toner · Pyrazolone Red Y · Rubber Fast Red B · Rubber Fast Red BA · Sanyo Pyrazolone Red · Silogomma Fast Red B · Silotermo Red B · Symuler Fast Pyrazolone Red B · Symuler Fast Pyrazolone Red BE · Vulcan Fast Red B · Vulcan Fast Red BA · Vulcan Fast Red BA-ND · Vulcan Fast Red BN

What it does

Used in consumer products as a colourant.

  • Colourant
Is it a concern?
We haven't assessed a concern score for this ingredient yet.

Regulation

No restrictions found. C.I. Pigment Red 38 appears in these published regulatory listings.

Recorded in these product areas

  • Found in consumer products
  • Industrial
  • USEPAcommercial use observedEPA CPDat observed this chemical in 0 composition records across product categories including unclassified products. EPA CPDat classifies this chemical for functional uses including Dye, Pigment.
    • EPA CPDat observed this chemical in 0 composition records across product categories including unclassified products. EPA CPDat classifies this chemical for functional uses including Dye, Pigment.Source →
  • USFDAlisted in openFDA substanceopenFDA substance registry classifies this ingredient as chemical.
    • openFDA substance registry classifies this ingredient as chemical.Source →

Evidence & sources

No graded research studies for C.I. Pigment Red 38 yet. This record is compiled from the published data sources below — registries and regulatory listings, not study findings.

5 data sources

Where this comes from

  • EPA Chemical and Products Database

    exposure · updated 2019-05-01

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  • EPA DSSTox Identifiers

    chemistry · updated 2025-12-29

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  • FDA GSRS UNII

    registry · updated 2026-02-26

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  • openFDA Substance

    registry · updated 2026-05-24

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  • PubChem Live Enrichment

    chemistry · updated 2026-05-17

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Suitability

Context-specific fit derived from published classifications and the current ingredient evidence profile.

Fragrance avoidance

Nothing to weigh for this context yet.

No signal in this context

We have no published hazard signal for this ingredient, so we cannot say how it behaves in this context — that is missing evidence, not a clean result.

Where it has been recorded

How often EPA CPDat has listed C.I. Pigment Red 38 in a product composition. These are source records, not Greenveil catalog products.

Named organisations

4

Typical roles

Colourant
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