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experiment, animals were exposed to VC for four hours daily, five days per week for various durations,<br />

and observed for the rest of their lives. A number of the experimental procedures were not described<br />

or were inadequately described in the report by Maltoni et al. (1984). Details of the experimental<br />

protocol for the BT experiments are provided in Table 6.<br />

Table 6: Experimental protocol for vinyl chloride inhalation studies performed by Maltoni et al. (1984).<br />

Experiment<br />

number<br />

Dose (ppm)<br />

Exposure<br />

duration<br />

(weeks) 1<br />

Species/s<br />

train<br />

Starting<br />

exposure age<br />

(weeks)<br />

animals/exposure<br />

concentration 2<br />

BT1 0, 50, 250, 500, 52 rat/SD 13 30 M, 30 F<br />

2500, 6000, 10000<br />

BT2 1, 100, 150, 200 52 rat/SD 13 60 M, 60 F<br />

(85 M, 85 F)<br />

BT3 0, 50, 250, 500, 17 rat/SD 12 30 M, 30 F<br />

2500, 6000, 10000<br />

BT4 0, 50, 250, 500,<br />

2500, 6000, 10000<br />

30 mouse/<br />

Swiss<br />

11 30 M, 30 F<br />

(80 M, 70 F)<br />

BT5 6000, 10000 1 rat/SD 19<br />

(fetus)<br />

30 F<br />

13-29 M, F<br />

(no controls)<br />

BT6 30000 52 rat/SD 17 30 M, 30 F<br />

(no controls)<br />

BT7 0, 50, 250, 500, 52 rat/ 11 30 M (40 M)<br />

2500, 6000, 10000<br />

BT8 0, 50, 250, 500,<br />

2000, 6000, 10000<br />

Wistar<br />

30 hamster/<br />

Syrian<br />

Golden<br />

11 30 M (62 M)<br />

BT9 0, 50 52 rat/SD 13 150 M, 150 F<br />

(50 M, 50 F)<br />

BT14 6000, 10000 5 rat/SD 21 (parents) 6 F<br />

(no controls)<br />

5<br />

1day 21-22 M, F<br />

(offspring) (no controls)<br />

BT15 0, 1, 5, 10, 25 52 rat/SD 13 60 M, 60 F<br />

BT4001 0, 2500 76 rat/SD 13<br />

54 F (60 F)<br />

69<br />

1 day 68 M, 68 F<br />

(158 M, 149F)<br />

BT4006 0, 2500 15 rat/SD 1 day 60 M, 60 F<br />

1 Exposures were for four hours/day, 5 days/week. 2 Number in parentheses = number of control<br />

animals when not equal to number of animals in experimental groups.<br />

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