Occupational safety health administration provides information about exposure limits to vinyl chloride.
Does vinyl flooring cause cancer.
We estimated the increased lifetime risk of cancer based on.
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.
How can exposures be reduced.
However whenever you are exposed to a cancer causing chemical your cancer risk increases.
Vinyl chloride which makes up pvc found in vinyl flooring is a known carcinogen and a volatile organic compound voc.
These chemicals have been.
Formaldehyde exposure from the tested laminate flooring would be much lower and would last for less time than the exposures linked to those cancers.
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