VINYL CHLORIDE

What official classifications and rules say for each group. A classification describes the hazard of the pure substance, not the risk of a product that contains it, which depends on the dose and the exposure.

Prohibition or serious classificationThe text prohibits the substance for this use, or ranks it among the most serious hazards (known or presumed carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic, identified endocrine disruptor).Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment.For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance.

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding

  Prohibited in cosmetics in the European Union for everyone, whatever the age or situation: no specific condition is therefore needed for this group.

• Babies and children

  Prohibited in cosmetics in the European Union for everyone, whatever the age or situation: no specific condition is therefore needed for this group.

• Skin, eyes and allergies

  No harmonised classification for sensitisation, irritation or eye damage, and no obligation to label it as an allergen.

• Environment

  No harmonised classification as hazardous to the aquatic environment, and it is not on ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency.'s Candidate List as an endocrine disruptor for the environment.

• Read on the label

  The Cosmetics Regulation requires no warning to be printed for this ingredient.

Prohibited in cosmetics

CosIng links the name VINYL CHLORIDE to this Annex II entry.

Entry

Annex II, No 334

Substance

Vinyl chloride monomer

CAS

75-01-4

EC

200-831-0

Identity

CosIng identifier

90183

CAS (according to CosIng)

75-01-4

EC (according to CosIng)

200-831-0

Wikidata

Q338869

PubChem

6338

ECHA InfoCard

100.000.756

InChIKey

BZHJMEDXRYGGRV-UHFFFAOYSA-N

vinyl chloride; chloroethylene

Carcinogenicity, category 1A (Carc. 1A)

Hazard classes

Gas under pressure (Press. Gas)
Flammable gas, category 1 (Flam. Gas 1)
Carcinogenicity, category 1A (Carc. 1A)

Hazard statements

H220 H350

CLP notes

D U

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Prohibited in cosmetics (Annex II)

Same entries as in the European Union. Their maximum concentrations are compared in the “Comparison between countries” table; other conditions (product types, warnings) may differ.

Switzerland

Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 applies in Switzerland (Article 54 of the Ordinance on Foodstuffs and Utility Articles).

United States, federal rules

• Prohibited: Use of vinyl chloride as an ingredient, including propellant of cosmetic aerosol products

  21 CFR 700.14. (a) Vinyl chloride has been used as an ingredient in cosmetic aerosol products including hair sprays. Where such aerosol products are used in the confines of a small room, as is often the case, the level of vinyl chloride to which the individual may be exposed could be significantly in excess of the safe level established in connection with occupational exposure. Evidence indicates that vinyl chloride inhalation can result in acute toxicity, manifested by dizziness, headache, disorientation, and unconsciousness where inhaled at high concentrations. Studies also demonstrate carcinogenic effects in animals as a result of inhalation exposure to vinyl chloride. Furthermore, vinyl chloride has recently been linked to liver disease, including liver cancer, in workers engaged in the polymerization of vinyl chloride. It is the view of the Commissioner that vinyl chloride is a deleterious substan…

South Korea

• Prohibited: 비닐클로라이드모노머 (VINYL CHLORIDE)

  별표 1 (prohibited substances), entry 399, page 21.

China

• Prohibited: 氯乙烯单体 (Vinyl chloride monomer （CAS No. 75-01-4）)

  表1 化妆品禁用原料目录 (prohibited substances, 2021年第74号), entry 1252, page 附件2 (.doc) table row 1252 ; TID reprint p.47.

Brazil

• Prohibited: Cloreto de viníla (Monômero)

  RDC 529/2021, Anexo (prohibited substances), entry 334, page 12.

  Conditions, source text, in Portuguese

  N° UE: 334