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ToxStrategies’ scientists publish paper on consumer product exposure to vinyl acetate monomer

ToxStrategies’ scientists Jennifer Bare, Mandie Kramer, and Susan Borghoff are excited share their new paper on consumer product exposure to vinyl acetate monomer (VAM). The team partnered with the Vinyl Acetate Council, who provided funding for the research, and analytical chemists and toxicologists from LyondellBasell Industries, who developed methods for determining VAM in a variety of consumer products. ToxStrategies subsequently modeled consumer exposure to a variety of household products containing residual VAM using EPA’s Consumer Exposure Model and RIVM’s ConsExpo. The study marks a significant contribution to the field, as it both presents an analytical methodology for detecting VAM in consumer products and demonstrates that, for the products evaluated, potential VAM exposure is less than acute and chronic health thresholds for the general public, based on the modeled exposure scenarios and assumptions.

The open access publication in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology is free to read and download, here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-025-00786-y

EpidStrategies Scientists in Collaboration with Duke University and the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States are Presenting at the 2025 SNO Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Conference

In the United States, the most common childhood central nervous system cancer is pediatric low-grade glioma, but there are no standardized coding definitions to easily identify these patients. On Friday, May 16, 2025, Mina Suh, Sue Pastula, and collaborators from CBTRUS and Duke University will present a study on developing coding definitions and describing pediatric patients with glioma. Please join us!

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