" EPA's 2001 updated Toxicological Profile and Summary Health Assessment for VCM in its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) database lowers EPA's previous risk factor estimate by a factor of 20 and concludes that "because of the consistent evidence for liver cancer in all the studies...and the weaker association for other sites, it is concluded that the liver is the most sensitive site, and protection against liver cancer will protect against possible cancer induction in other tissues.
23. januarja 1974, je BF Goodrich obvestila vlado in izdala sporočilo za javnost, v katerem je navedeno, da je bilo "ugotovljeno, da so bile smrti zaradi raka treh zaposlenih v polivinil kloridovi dejavnosti, v tovarni v Louisville, Ky povezane s poklicnim vzrokom.