Exposure to pvc often includes exposure to phthalates and chlorine.
Vinyl chloride health hazards.
It can enter drinking water released from contact with pvc pipes according to the u s.
In classifying the hazards of vinyl chloride at least the following hazards are to be addressed.
Absorption is rapid and nearly complete.
Phthalates dioxins and bpa are suspected to be endocrine disruptors.
With a copy of the osha exposure to vinyl chloridecan severely irritate and burn the skin and eyes with possible eye damage.
This data for bis 2 ethylhexyl phthalate and vinyl chloride monomer apply to the pure form of the compound.
Vinyl chloride is a chemical intermediate not a final product.
Due to the hazardous nature of vinyl chloride to human health there are no end products that use vinyl chloride in its monomer form.
Cancer risk of exposure to vinyl chloride.
Polyvinyl chloride pvc is very stable storable and nowhere near as acutely toxic as the vinyl chloride monomer vcm.
18 pph 15m vinyl chloride monomer is an osha cancer suspect agent acgih confirmed human carcinogen and ntp and iarc human carcinogen.
Inhalation is the major route of vinyl chloride exposure.
Shipped as a liquefied compressed gas.
Central nervous system effects.
Animal studies have shown that vinyl chloride via inhalation increases the incidence of angiosarcoma of the liver and.
Chloroethene chloroethylene ethylene monochloride monochloroethene monochloroethylene vc vcm vinyl chloride monomer vcm colorless gas or liquid below 7 f with a pleasant odor at high concentrations.
Vinyl chloride an essential component of pvc is a carcinogenic and potentially explosive gas with a mild sweet odor.
Contact with the liquid or gascan cause frostbite.
Vinyl chloride monomer ld50 rat inhalation.
Inhalation is the primary route of exposure and vinyl chloride is readily absorbed from the lungs.
Inhaled vinyl chloride has been shown to increase the risk of a rare form of liver cancer angiosarcoma of the liver in.
Vinyl chloride exposure is associated with an increased risk of a rare form of liver cancer hepatic angiosarcoma as well as brain and lung cancers lymphoma and leukemia.
Manufacturing burning or landfilling pvc releases dioxins.
Pvc contains chemicals that may have adverse health effects.
