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Research Program

Vanitec, in conjunction with the Vanadium Producers & Reclaimers Association (VPRA) and the US Army, is involved in an extensive multimillion (US) dollar research program to study and better understand the health and environmental effects of vanadium.

The Vanadium Safety Readiness (VSR) program has been designed to ensure that vanadium companies are equipped to properly safeguard the health and safety of workers and others exposed to vanadium and vanadium-containing compounds and to evaluate and mitigate health and environmental risks. This is a cooperative relationship between the vanadium industry, academia and the US Army.

Currently, initial work is already underway at laboratories and includes a comparative assessment of the acute and five day nose-only inhalation toxicity of vanadium compounds. These short exposure studies are needed to provide basic information to permit more relevant longer term studies to be designed and conducted. In addition, initial solubility and dissolution testing of vanadium compounds, will determine if these properties are useful predictors of toxicity.

Analysis of existing and ongoing studies, evaluation of health research published by others, and oversight of the VSR program by a well-respected scientific review board are integral components. Future work may include longer term inhalation studies, mechanistic studies, and environmental research.