Occupational safety health administration provides information about exposure limits to vinyl chloride.
Vinyl chloride exposure limits.
Standards and guidelines for industrial exposure to vinyl chloride the following is quoted from the us atsdr.
Vinyl chloride is treated as a human carcinogen.
Food ingestion is a trivial source of exposure.
The legal airborne permissible exposure limit pel is 1 ppm averaged over an 8 hour workshift and 5 ppm.
The monomer of vinyl chloride.
In the 1970s residual vinyl chloride was found in products such as vinyl music records plastic food bottles kitchen wrapping films and bathroom tiles.
Explosive polymerization may occur at elevated temperatures if vinyl chloride is not inhibited.
1 no employee may be exposed to vinyl chloride at concentrations greater than 1 ppm averaged over any 8 hour period and 2 no employee may be exposed to vinyl chloride at concentrations greater than 5 ppm averaged over any period not exceeding 15 minutes.
Pvc consumer products may contain very small residual amounts of vinyl chloride.
No employee may be exposed to vinyl chloride at levels greater than 1 ppm averaged over any 8 hour period or levels greater than 5 ppm averaged over any period exceeding 15 minutes.
Workplace exposure limits osha.
Agency for toxic substances and disease registry.
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.
Hazardous operation means any operation procedure or activity where a release of either vinyl chloride liquid or gas might be expected as a consequence of the operation or because of an accident in the operation which would result in an employee exposure in excess of the permissible exposure limit.
Exposure to vinyl chloride from food and beverage consumption is estimated at 0 1 µg day.
Congress specifically identified vinyl chloride as a hazardous air pollutant under the clean air act and it is regulated as such by the epa.
The us epa and fda limit vinyl chloride in drinking water to 0 002 ppm.
Exposure to vinyl chloride is also subject to workplace safety standards for airborne concentrations.
The food and drug administration currently limits the quantity of vinyl chloride in food contact plastics.
The us osha limits vinyl chloride exposure of workers to no more than 1 ppm for eight hours or 5 ppm for 15 minutes.
Osha pel permissible exposure limit 1 ppm averaged over an 8 hour workshift niosh idlh immediately dangerous to life or health not yet determined.
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Last accessed december 28 2018.
Centers for disease control and prevention 2006.
