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IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Alcohol Consumption and Ethyl Carbamate. Lyon (FR): International Agency for Research on Cancer; 2010. (IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, No. 96.)

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ETHYL CARBAMATE

There appears to be no general consensus on a common trivial name for this substance: ethyl carbamate and urethane (or urethan) are both commonly used; however, a preference for ethyl carbamate was noted in the more recent literature. The name urethane is also sometimes applied to high-molecular-weight polyurethanes used as foams, elastomers and coatings. Such products are not made from and do not generate the chemical ethyl carbamate on decomposition. Due to this possible confusion, the term ethyl carbamate has been used in this monograph.

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©International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2010.
Bookshelf ID: NBK326562

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