Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp internal release 1.2; site hpfclk.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!hpfclk!marysue From: marysue@hpfclk.UUCP Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: New vinyl smell Message-ID: <56800001@hpfclk.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 14:52:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfclk.56800001 Posted: Sat Feb 11 14:52:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 08:28:56 EST References: <580@pyuxqq.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:pyuxqq:-58000:hpfclk:56800001:000:611 Nf-From: hpfclk!marysue Feb 3 11:52:00 1984 Re: New vinyl smell I believe the smell of new vinyl is plasticizers, rather that vinyl chloride. Once these outgas, what's left is vinyl. I think that vinyl chloride can be released if the vinyl is heated to a fairly high temperature, but I'm sort of talking out of my head now. I have a LOT of chemical sensitivities, so when I get a new item that is made of vinyl, I wash it with (unperfumed) soap and put it outside to air out for several days. I suspect that even a person who is not aware of an allergy problem should not breathe these things indiscriminately. Mary Sue Rowan hpfcla!marysue