Guidance

Acrylamide: properties and incident management

Information about acrylamide for use in responding to chemical incidents.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 1 July 2014
• Last updated: 5 February 2025
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  1. 5 February 2025

     The content of the Incident Management document has been updated. The General Information page has undergone a HTML format update – the content within this page has remained unchanged.

  2. 12 May 2017

     Added general information document.

  3. 8 November 2016

     Updated incident management document.

  4. 22 January 2016

     Updated incident management guidance.

  5. 1 July 2014

     First published.

Documents

Acrylamide: incident management

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Acrylamide: general information

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Details

These documents provide information on the health effects of exposure and material for responding to a chemical incident.

Acrylamide is also known as 2-propenamide and acrylic amide.

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