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How safe is cutting vinyl?
Hi everyone, I am new to the forum and was hoping for some help regarding vinyl use.
I have been in business, working from home, for nearly 2 years. I use Ritrama L100 vinyl for basic cutting. I work from the back bedroom.
I have recently been seeing articles regarding vinyl releasing harmful toxins etc and wondered if anyone had any information on this. I have been trawling through the internet looking for some helpful information but it’s all very complicated.
The problem I have is my room is full of this vinyl and I don’t want to be putting mine or my family’s health at risk.
I did find this quote but it’s not enough to put my mind at ease…
"Robert Rundle, viscom marketing manager, Ritrama, explains that when manufacturing the company’s vinyl media it requires that the vinyl chloride monomer in the PVC resin is kept under control. The result is no harmful monomers in the material".Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Kaye 😀
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Can I ask where you saw the article that alerted you to this in the first place?
Vinyl is handled and stored in large quantities in sign and print shops all over the world. i doubt for a second that if this had any sort of health scare issues it would be allowed in the UK, never mind anywhere else in the world.
I am sure dangerous chemicals are used to create billions of products every day, but it doesn’t mean the finished article will. Just my take on it, doesn’t mean i am correct. i think your maybe just misinterpretating what is being said.
hense why i asked what raised this question for you in the first place? -
Hi Robert, thanks for your reply.
It was on some kind of mother and baby site about not putting vinyl decals in baby’s rooms because of the toxins it can produce.
I know it sounds like a crazy question and I would never have thought it in a million years but once the seed was planted that was it.
I did ring my supplier and his reaction was "I doubt it because if it does then we’ve all had it because we’re surrounded by thousands of rolls". Haha.
Probably the the usual internet scaremongering.Thanks 🙂
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Is it April already! – being seriously never heard this one before, I think something’s been taken out of context.
Yes it is true that vinyl chloride, a chemical used in PVC is classified toxic, and manufacture can creates dioxins.
But this is at the manufacturing stage, and you will notice a lot of sign vinyl’s state PVC free or phthalate free PVC or similar.I’d be more worried about accidents while cutting & using the material, lapse of concentration last month left me with 9 stitches in my hand 😮
If you look carefully at anything, it can be dangerous, poisonous, etc. – the beauty of free speech & the internet!
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never heard of that, but i have heard that un-laminated "printed" graphics should not be used in young children’s rooms unless out of reach. due to the solvent etc in the ink. licking, fingering, hands-on the Disney pictures etc if that makes sense? but not bare cut vinyl graphics.
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Most of the people on this forum would be ill by now if that were the case, I can see why unlaminated digital prints should not be put up in baby/small childrens rooms as Robert has suggested but it is probably the case that someone has miss understood something they read & started a rumour :lol1: :lol1:
Robert you could have worded your last post a bit better 😉 😉
kaye, if you introduce yourself in the hello section & tell people a little about yourself & what you do you will get better responses to questions.
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quote Martin Pearson:Robert you could have worded your last post a bit better 😉 😉
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very true…
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I thought I had logged into the wrong forum :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
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This might explain the danger related to PVC
While PVC does contain harmful carcinogens, VCM is merely a part of the production of vinyl. Once PVC is produced, VCM is no longer emitted, so it doesn’t pose a threat to anybody who uses vinyl. Dioxin can only be released from PVC when it is burned at low or extremely high temperatures. In the case of a building fire, dioxin may be released into the air, but firefighters are prepared for dangerous fumes, which is why most of them wear oxygen masks. Many other building materials release harmful toxins when burned, so PVC shouldn’t be pinpointed. Finally, research involving plasticizers (such as phthalates) has never been done on humans. Lab rats that developed cancer after exposure to plasticizers were exposed to the equivalent of a human ingesting 500 grams of plasticizer every day for 100 days, which is highly unlikely.
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Thanks everyone. I know I have probably made myself sound a little crazy but once I saw it I couldn’t get it out of my mind and had to ask for some advice.
Martin I will do that, I didn’t know about the hello section.
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Personally I think you would have been crazy not to ask, nothing more important than your health so if there is something your not sure about best to get it sorted right away.
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It was a sensible question so don’t knock yourself for asking.
How many times will pipe fitters have asked "Ss it safe" about asbestos? Now we know it’s not safe at all!
Steve
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quote Kaye Elsender:It was on some kind of mother and baby site about not putting vinyl decals in baby’s rooms because of the toxins it can produce.The sort that would go mad if they ever googled "Dihydrogen Monoxide FAQ"
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quote Richard Wills:quote Kaye Elsender:It was on some kind of mother and baby site about not putting vinyl decals in baby’s rooms because of the toxins it can produce.
The sort that would go mad if they ever googled “Dihydrogen Monoxide FAQ”
Yer that stuff should be banned Richard, once your hooked on it there is no getting off it, withdrawal symptoms normally lead to a painful death
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Just impregnate the kids wall graphics with Ethylisopropyltryptamine will keep them happy for ohh.. 4-6 hours at a lick…..
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