Vinyl acetate or vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) is a versatile and economically important building block chemical used to manufacture polymers that have a wide variety of industrial and commercial applications.

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Measurement of vinyl acetate monomer in consumer products and modeled estimates of consumer exposure

A market-basket sampling of residual vinyl acetate monomer levels in 71 consumer products purchased in the United States that met the selection criteria.

Eleven use scenarios were developed based on seven categories of consumer products. Exposure assessments were conducted using ConsExpo (version 1.1.1) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Consumer Exposure Model (CEM; version 2.1) .

Resulting exposure estimates were all less than both acute and chronic non-cancer human health thresholds.