Absorption is rapid and nearly complete.
Vinyl chloride health hazards.
Manufacturing burning or landfilling pvc releases dioxins.
Inhaled vinyl chloride has been shown to increase the risk of a rare form of liver cancer angiosarcoma of the liver in.
Contact with the liquid or gascan cause frostbite.
Polyvinyl chloride pvc is very stable storable and nowhere near as acutely toxic as the vinyl chloride monomer vcm.
Shipped as a liquefied compressed gas.
Central nervous system effects.
The following acute short term health effects may occur immediately or shortly after exposure to vinyl chloride.
Pvc contains chemicals that may have adverse health effects.
Cancer risk of exposure to vinyl chloride.
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 monomer ld50 rat inhalation.
Vinyl chloride is a chemical intermediate not a final product.
This data for bis 2 ethylhexyl phthalate and vinyl chloride monomer apply to the pure form of the compound.
Vinyl chloride an essential component of pvc is a carcinogenic and potentially explosive gas with a mild sweet odor.
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.
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 primary route of exposure and vinyl chloride is readily absorbed from the lungs.
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.
Dermal absorption is negligible.
Due to the hazardous nature of vinyl chloride to human health there are no end products that use vinyl chloride in its monomer form.
It can enter drinking water released from contact with pvc pipes according to the u s.
Animal studies have shown that vinyl chloride via inhalation increases the incidence of angiosarcoma of the liver and.
Exposure to pvc often includes exposure to phthalates and chlorine.
