Coatings update: Pollution, toxicity, regulation and the paint industry, Part 3

In addition to asbestos, numerous other materials of interest to the paint industry have been subjected to toxicological inquiry. Thus, glycidyl ethers, representative of which are epoxy resins and reactive diluents and plasticizers such as phenyl glycidyl ether or butyl glycidyl ether may be health hazards according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. This has been pointed out in an article in Modern Paint & Coatings [69,3 (1979) p. 66].