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Emerging Science - Building the Case
Studies that link the production, use, and disposal of PVC-based materials with environmental and health impacts help us to understand why PVC avoidance is so critical. Historically, scientific inquiry has focused on production and end of life impacts because those were thought of as the most egregious. These days, researchers are investigating impacts during product use and finding similar trends. If you're left wondering when enough will be enough for regulatory action to be justified, you're not alone!
In this section you will find the latest studies regarding PVC.
Emerging Science Links:
- Vinyl Chloride: A Case Study of Data Suppression
and Misrepresentation (PDF)
When the US EPA finalized its 2000 update of the toxicological effects of vinyl chloride (VC), it was concerned with two issues: 1) the classification of vinyl chloride as a carcinogen and 2) the numerical estimate of its potency. This Environmental Health Perspectives commentary describes how the EPA review of VC toxicology, which was drafted with substantial input from the chemical industry, weakened safeguards on both points.
- Update on the Environmental Health Impacts of PVC as a Building Material: Evidence from 2000-2004 (PDF)
On April 2, 2004 the Healthy Building Network submitted an update of the scientific evidence published since its December 2000 submission to the USGBC on environmental health effects of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) building materials. The document is intended to serve as a reader's guide to the primary documents, reports, and data submitted to the USGBC's Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee (TSAC) in response to its November 2003 solicitation for evidence.
- Environmental Impacts of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Building
Materials (Summary)
This report exhaustively reviews the science behind the environmental
health problems created through out the life cycle of PVC as used
in building materials
Download Summary (PDF)
Download full
report (1.5 MB PDF)
For a paper copy of this report, send a check for $25 payable
to "ILSR" to Healthy Building Network, 927 15th Street,
NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005.
- Healthy Building News: Two Independent Critiques Of Vinyl Building Materials Link Flooring & Asthma, Reproductive Problems & PVC Combustion
(November 1, 2004)
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