Meanings of chloroprene in English

From the mid-1940s, DuPont scientists studied the effects of chloroprene on human health.

Denka is not the first to argue that the risks of chloroprene are overstated.

Studies have linked chloroprene to cancers of the liver, lung and kidneys thyroid and leukemia.

We also met the Louisiana toxic air pollutant ambient air standard for chloroprene, the spokesman said.

Government-installed air readers close to the plant routinely detect chloroprene dozens of times above this level.

The US government considers chloroprene, the primary constituent of neoprene, as likely to be carcinogenic to humans.

The manual states that chloroprene "may enter the body either by inhalation or by absorption through the skin".

The Louisiana secretary of environmental quality, Chuck Carr Brown, a former industry consultant, has worked with Denka to lower chloroprene emissions.

Beginning in 1968, the factory, then owned by the chemicals company DuPont, emitted chloroprene into the air in Reserve without much attention.

In 1999, definitive links to cancer emerged when the International Agency for Research on Cancer found that chloroprene was a likely carcinogen.

It warns that if consumed at high concentrations chloroprene "causes depression of the central nervous system and damage to vital organs".

Feeling neglected by politicians, they are fighting back against the chemical plant has been emitting chloroprene into the air for half a century

It is against this backdrop that Denka has pushed the Trump administration to withdraw the assessment of chloroprene as likely to be carcinogenic.

The PBPK model included tissue metabolism rate constants for chloroprene estimated from results of in vitro gas uptake studies using liver and lung microsomes.

Routinely, chloroprene emissions were dozens of times above the EPA's guidance, suggesting residents living close to the plant had been constantly exposed for decades.

The company has long disputed the dangers presented by chloroprene and is currently lobbying the federal government to change its "likely carcinogen" status.