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Checked by PolitiFact24 Feb 2023United States
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“Just weeks before the massive vinyl chloride leak and burn-off that is currently poisoning East Palestine, Ohio, the CDC changed its toxicology report on vinyl chloride on its F.A.Q page for the first time in 17 years.”

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PolitiFact says: An updated draft toxicological profile for vinyl chloride was released Feb. 9, 2023, after months of development. Before that, the profile had been updated in 2006 and a supplemental addendum was published in 2016.