EU SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE TONES DOWN RISK CONCERNS FOR VINYL ACETATE
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union scientific committee on health and environmental risks has eased possible lighter controls on the polymer precursor vinyl acetate. The committee stressed "there is no indication [it] can cause skin tumours." And although the committee agreed effects include "acute toxicity; skin, eye and respiratory tract irritation..." it said "there is no need for labelling...as a skin sensitiser."
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THE EUROPEAN Union scientific committee on health and environmental risks has eased possible lighter controls on the polymer precursor vinyl acetate. The committee stressed "there is no indication [it] can cause skin tumours." And although the committee agreed effects include "acute toxicity; skin, eye and respiratory tract irritation..." it said "there is no need for labelling...as a skin sensitiser."
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