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Summary of Evaluations Performed by the
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

VINYL CHLORIDE
Functional class: CONTAMINANT
Latest evaluation: 1984
Tolerable Intake: PROVISIONAL ACCEPTANCE
Comments: The use of food-contact materials from which vinyl chloride may migrate is provisionally accepted, on condition that the amount of the substance migrating into food is reduced to the lowest level technologically attainable.
Report: TRS 710-JECFA 28/25
Tox monograph: FAS 19-JECFA 28/197
 
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    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Vinyl Chloride (EHC 215, 1999)
       Vinyl Chloride (HSG 109, 1999)
       Vinyl chloride (ICSC)
       Vinyl chloride (WHO Food Additives Series 19)
       Vinyl chloride (PIM 558)
       Vinyl Chloride  (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Supplement7, 1987)
       Vinyl Chloride (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Volume 7, 1974)