Vinyl Chloride Disease

Most people begin to taste vinyl chloride in water at 3 4 ppm.

Vinyl chloride disease. Shipped as a liquefied compressed gas. Occupational safety health administration provides information about exposure limits to vinyl chloride. Vinyl chloride is a deadly toxic chemical despite industry s repeated attempts to hide the threats. 29 were free of complaints and nervous disturbances.

Exposed to vinyl chloride for 1 to 25 yr mean 14 58 i e. Vinyl chloride is a known human carcinogen that causes a rare cancer of the liver. Other pertinent literature is also presented but is described in less detail than the key studies. Loss of visual acuity occurs very rapidly and is accompanied by ascending paralysis.

In 2007 the international agency for research on cancer established the association of vcm with hepatocellular carcinoma hcc though only on the basis. Pyramidal syndromes in 52 cerebellar disturbances in 38. However the odor is of little value in preventing excess exposure. According to the united states environmental protection agency epa vinyl chloride emissions from polyvinyl chloride pvc ethylene dichloride edc and vinyl chloride monomer vcm plants cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness.

Vinyl chloride is used to make polyvinyl chloride pvc. Each peer reviewed profile identifies and reviews the key literature that describes a hazardous substance s toxicologic properties. An astheno autonomic syndrome was found in 54 i e. There is no treatment for this disease.

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. Portal hypertension liver fibrosis and angiosarcoma of the liver asl have been reported among workers exposed to vinyl chloride monomer vcm since the 1970s. Vinyl chloride a chemical known to cause cancer poisons the air breathed by workers and people living in contaminated communities. 44 in combination with positive neurological findings i e.

How can exposures be reduced. 27 and in 88 i e. Devic s disease a demyelinative disease of the optic nerve the optic chiasma and the spinal cord characterized by a bilateral acute optic neuritis with a transverse inflammation of the spinal cord.