TY  - GEN
AU  - Long,G.
AU  - Meek,M.E.
AU  - Cureton,P.
TI  - Acrylonitrile
SN  - 9241530391
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Geneva
PB  - World Health Organization
KW  - Acrylonitrile
KW  - Risk assessment
KW  - Environmental exposure
KW  - Occupational exposure
N2  - This book evaluates the risk to human health and the environment posed by exposures to acrylonitrile. Acrylonitrile is a volatile, flammable, water-soluble liquid at room temperature. The large majority of acrylonitrile in Canada is used as a feedstock or chemical aid in the production of nitrilebutadiene rubber, and in acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene and styrene-acrylonitrile polymers.

Available data from studies in animals indicate that acrylonitrile is a skin respiratory and severe eye irritant. Increases in cancer incidence have not been consistently observed in available human epidemiological studies. A range of tumors in rats studies are evaluated for carcinogenic potency of acrylonitrile on humans
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