Acrylonitrile.
Publication details: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2002. Description: 51 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN: 9241530391Subject(s): Acrylonitrile | Risk assessment | Environmental exposure | Occupational exposureNLM classification: QV 633 A 2002 Summary: 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.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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