How much toluene is safe?

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PaulKing - 21 May 2005 05:16 GMT

Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is equivalent to an exposure level of
1,000 micrograms of toluene.

This is enough according to the FDA to cause birth defects.

Condoms contain hundreds of times more toluene then this.

What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human
health?

The federal government has developed regulatory standards and guidelines
to protect you from the possible health effects of toluene in the
environment. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has
set a limit of 100 ppm of toluene for air in the workplace, averaged for
an 8-hour exposure per day over a 40-hour work week. The American
Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) and the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have recommended that
toluene in workplace air not exceed 100 ppm (as an average level over 8
hours).

Condom manufacturers add toluene to per vulc. latex to aid mixing during
ball milling. The quantities used are substantial (like adding paint
thinner to your paint) and VASTLY in excess of the 100 parts per million
(one part per 10,000 of latex) considered the maximum safe level.

Condoms clearly cause birth defects. If not then what we have been told
about cigarettes causing birth defects is quite impossible.

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David Canzi -- non-mailable - 22 May 2005 18:29 GMT

>Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is equivalent to an exposure level of
>1,000 micrograms of toluene.
>
>This is enough according to the FDA to cause birth defects.
>
>Condoms contain hundreds of times more toluene then this.

Hundreds of times 1,000 micrograms is 2 or more tenths of a gram.
Condoms would be *wet* with toluene. People would be shaking the
excess toluene off their condoms before using them.

If you actually knew what you claim to know, you would be able to tell
us how you know, ie. provide the sources for your information. You
have been asked for this repeatedly, and you have failed repeatedly.
Instead you give us made-up scare-mongering BS like the above.

>The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has
>set a limit of 100 ppm of toluene for air in the workplace,
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>thinner to your paint) and VASTLY in excess of the 100 parts per million
>(one part per 10,000 of latex) considered the maximum safe level.

The 100 PPM OSHA standard for toluene levels in workplace air is a
standard for toluene in *air*, not rubber. It is irrelevant to the
risk, if any, of the toluene, if any, in condoms. Condom users don't
breathe latex for 40 hours a week.

You put a lot of effort into composting irrelevant arguments like
the above that would be better spent on finding credible sources
of accurate and relevant information.

You don't seem to care whether what you say is true, but you try very
hard to convince other people of it. You are not wrong at random,
like an innocent fool, but systematically and purposefully, like a
con artist. If widely believed your BS would have these predictable
results: (1) more people would catch HIV and they would die faster, (2)
more people would be willing to have condomless sex in front of cameras
for money, and (3) more women would be willing to have condomless
sex with an untested geezer who has had 2800 previous sex partners.

What a dark picture of your character and motives is painted by your
behaviour in multiple internet forums.

>Condoms clearly cause birth defects.

The only thing your postings make clear is that you have motives for
the things you say, and that the truth doesn't serve those motives.

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