Safety Statements: Poison by ingestion, intraperitoneal, intravenous, and subcutaneous routes. Human systemic effects by ingestion: wakefulness, blood pressure lowering, constipation, hepatitis, fibrous hepatitis. Experimental reproductive effects. Questionable carcinogen with experimental neoplastigenic data. Mutation data reported. Used as a drug for the treatment of depression. When heated to decomposition it emits very toxic fumes of SOx and NOx.