Vinyl Chloride: A Case Study of Data Suppression and Misrepresentation
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 113 (7) , 809-812
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.7716
Abstract
When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its 2000 update of the toxicological effects of vinyl chloride (VC), it was concerned with two issues: the classification of VC as a carcinogen and the numerical estimate of its potency. In ...Keywords
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