Vinyl chloride is a manufactured substance that is used to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic products, such as pipes, wire coatings, packaging materials, and cigarette filters. Because vinyl chloride usually exists in a gaseous state, the most common way of taking vinyl chloride into the human body is inhalation. People whowork at or near a facility thatmanufactures vinyl chloride and PVC p...

 Vinyl chloride is readily and rapidly absorbed via inhalation, ingestion and through the skin  At room temperature vinyl chloride is a gas, so inhalation is the major route exposure  Following absorption, it is distributed through the body, with the highest concentrations found in the liver and kidneys, followed by the lungs and spleen  Vinyl chloride is mainly metabolised in the liver int...

The carcinogenicity of vinyl chloride for experimental animals when administered transplacentally is reviewed in comparison with known transplacental carcinogens, including those that, like vinyl chloride, are dependent on enzyme-mediated metabolic conversion to a reactive intermediate in maternal or fetal tissues. Vinyl chloride is converted by mixed-function oxidases to the reactive metabolit...

Rotational isomeric state theory has been used to calculate mean-square unperturbed dimensions (r2>0 and dipole moments (/~> of ethylene-vinyl chloride copolymers as a function of chemical composition, chemical sequence distribution, and stereochemical composition of the vinyl chloride sequences. As was previously found for several other copolymeric chains, (/z2> is much more sensitive to chemi...

Consideration of needs for public health interventions and new research requires comparative assessments of the health benefits that are likely to result from alternative uses of limited regulatory and technical resources. This paper briefly examines regulatory and research priorities in the light of recent information on the carcinogenic hazards of vinyl chloride and alkyl and vinyl halides re...

The improvement in exposure conditions in the Swedish vinyl chloride producing industry is reported. The article comments on the technology and control methods by which the vinyl chloride concentration has been lowered to less than 1 ppm vinyl chloride. Two epidemiological retrospective cohort studies are presently under way on workers in PVC-utilizing industries and in the rubber industry.

Experiments with volunteers showed that 42% of an inhaled dose of vinyl chloride is retained in the lungs. This value is independent of the concentration of vinyl chloride in the air. Elimination of vinyl chloride through the lungs is negligible since its concentration in expired air decreases immediately after the cessation of exposure.

The various adverse biological effects of vinyl chloride appear to be dependent upon the metabolic conversion of this compound into chemically reactive metabolites. The metabolism of vinyl chloride in mammals and in man, including the formation of monochloroacetic acid and some identified sulfur conjugates is reviewed. Hepatic microsomal mixed function oxidases from rats, mice, and humans were ...

A rotational isomeric state model with neighbor interactions is used to calculate mean-square unperturbed dimensions and dipole moments for vinyl chloride chains CHa-(CHCI-CH,,)zH having degrees of polymerization x ranging from 1 to 150 and stereochemical structures ranging from perfect syndiotacticity to perfect isotacticity. Conformational energies used in the calculation were those which had...

In water distribution systems containing PVC pipe manufactured in the ‘‘early era’’ ~prior to 1977!, vinyl chloride can leach into drinking water resulting in vinyl chloride concentrations exceeding the 2 mg•L maximum contaminant level. Field testing of dead-end segments of water distribution systems consisting of early-era PVC pipe was conducted to examine their initial intrapipe vinyl chlorid...