Formaldehyde is considered a carcinogen, acetaldehyde is considered a possible carcinogen, and acrolein can cause lung damage.
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Benzene is a carcinogen known to cause cancer in humans.
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Formaldehyde, used in making building materials, is a known carcinogen.
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A number 6 denotes styrene, which is a known carcinogen.
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" In a statement, Monsanto said, "Glyphosate is not a carcinogen.
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MYTH: Nicotine causes cancer Nicotine itself is not a carcinogen.
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Grill fish, seafood, poultry or plant-based foods rather than red meat and especially processed meats like hot dogs; the World Health Organization considers processed meats a carcinogen and red meat a probable carcinogen.
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This impurity is also a known animal and potential human carcinogen.
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The Environmental Protection Agency calls the metal a probable human carcinogen.
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In its natural form, some talc contains asbestos, a known carcinogen.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies benzene as a carcinogen.
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Secondhand smoke is a known carcinogen, hence the "no smoking" sign.
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NDMA, or N-nitrosodimethylamine, is classified as a probable human carcinogen.
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The carcinogen has been a concern inside the company for decades.
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Eating these foods every day are a probable human carcinogen, too.
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The main ingredient, styrene, has been named a possible human carcinogen.
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Asbestos is a carcinogen once used widely in fireproofing and insulation.
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The EPA describes asbestos as a "known carcinogen" that can be inhaled.
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According to the American Cancer Society, talc is not a known carcinogen.
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In its naturally occurring form, some talc contains asbestos—a known carcinogen.
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Last year, the World Health Organization classified glyphosate as a "probable" carcinogen.
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Silica is a human carcinogen and also causes lung disease, including silicosis.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies it as a probable human carcinogen.
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But then again, coal is technically a carcinogen, so there you go.
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Benzene, for example, is a recognized carcinogen often associated with such development.
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That ingredient in the recalled drugs was tainted with a possible carcinogen.
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The US Department of Health lists alcohol as a known human carcinogen.
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IARC's assessment that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen is an outlier.
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All this wonderful heart health and anti-carcinogen and anti-Alzheimer's research.
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The F.D.A. had said it discovered evidence of the carcinogen in a bottle.
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The World Health Organization classifies dimethylformamide, or DMF, as a probable human carcinogen.
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Many gyms offer access to tanning beds, a known carcinogen, to their patrons.
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DDT is classified as a probable human carcinogen by U.S. and international authorities.
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But people who worked with asbestos soon discovered it was a dangerous carcinogen.
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DMF is classified as a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
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IARC is the only one to have declared the substance a probable carcinogen.
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The emissions also contain trace amounts of other harmful chemicals, including the carcinogen benzene.
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More products made with asbestos increases the risk of future exposures to this carcinogen.
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Isophorone is a possible carcinogen, which is to say it can maybe cause cancer.
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But lawmakers are not taking action to prevent exposure to asbestos, a known carcinogen.
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Nicotine isn't the only thing e-cigs deliver; they also deliver formaldehyde, a carcinogen.
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Versions of the drug have been found to contain low levels of a carcinogen.
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What about dangerous carcinogen vapors intruding into homeowners' basements with the potential for explosions?
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But what's not in dispute is that asbestos is indeed a well-established carcinogen.
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"Light at the wrong time of day is now recognized as a carcinogen," Schmidt said.
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On Earth, they're considered a carcinogen, and are produced when things burn — like fossil fuels.
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The weapon had a shell made from a composite containing the cancer-causing carcinogen asbestos.
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Still, he welcomed the news that coffee would no longer be deemed a possible carcinogen.
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The toxic fluid contains a known carcinogen, formaldehyde, which leaches into the soil following burial.
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And in 2015, a study showed that aerosols from e-cigs contain formaldehyde, another carcinogen.
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The U.S. remains the only developed country that has not fully banned on the carcinogen.
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Why it matters: A 2016 law gave the EPA new authority to prohibit the carcinogen.
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Until now, the federal government has not regulated formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, in wood products.
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Consumer claims of asbestos, a known carcinogen, in some Claire's cosmetics were reported in 2017.
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The Environmental Protection Agency considers NDMA a carcinogen that can cause liver damage in humans.
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N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, is considered a possible carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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The recall is due to an "impurity" that is classified as a potential human carcinogen.
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"Since it is a carcinogen, there is no completely 'safe' level of arsenic," he said.
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The floor tiles and adhesive contained asbestos, a carcinogen, an internal company maintenance report shows.
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It ranked glyphosate a Group 21980a carcinogen, a substance that probably causes cancer in people.
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The IARC classed glyphosate as a "probable carcinogen," the only major health regulator to do so.
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Roasting coffee beans at high temperature can produce a chemical called acrylamide, a potential human carcinogen.
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The Environmental Protection Agency now considers it to be a potential human carcinogen at high doses.
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In 2013, the WHO even concluded that air pollution could be categorized as a human carcinogen.
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The deadly carcinogen has been found in consumer products such as baby powder and children's makeup.
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Indeed, IARC has concluded just once, out of 989 inquiries, that something is not a carcinogen.
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A 2015 study found these two e-cig solvents, when vaporized, can produce formaldehyde—another carcinogen.
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2007 classified nighttime work as a probable carcinogen.
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"PM2.5 was declared a carcinogen by the World Health Organization as early as 2013," he said.
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FDA said NDMA is classified as a probable human carcinogen based on results from laboratory tests.
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That impurity, NDMA, has been classified as a probable human carcinogen, based on lab test results.
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The EPA has since classified chloroform, a byproduct of chlorinating water, as a probable human carcinogen.
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The listing of glyphosate as a carcinogen would represent a warning to consumers, not a ban.
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According to Bloomberg, it is classified as a possible human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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In 2016, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization moved coffee off its "possible carcinogen" list.
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JP-8, the jet fuel often used to ignite trash, released clouds of benzene, a known carcinogen.
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Natural gas also contains the compound benzene, which is considered a carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
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In 2015, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.
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The defoliant, whose ingredients included the carcinogen Dioxin, burned off the jungle canopy and poisoned the soil.
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The most recent cases have alleged that J&J's talc products contained asbestos, long a known carcinogen.
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Two years ago, the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization deemed glyphosate a probable carcinogen.
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Still, the EPA says glyphosate is not a carcinogen and that it poses no public health risks.
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The EPA already lists formaldehyde, used in building materials like plywood and foam insulation, as a probable carcinogen.
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But the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) regards the betel nut itself to be a carcinogen.
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In failing to post carcinogen warnings, the lawsuit alleges, the coffee shops are in violation of this policy.
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J&J said that its widely-used baby powder never contained asbestos, a known carcinogen linked to mesothelioma.
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It is listed as a possible human carcinogen and can linger in the soil for hundreds of years.
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But asbestos, a carcinogen that can exist underground near talc, was a concern inside the company for decades.
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The pollutants included benzene, which is a carcinogen, and methane, which is a major contributor to climate change.
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Reuters reported on Friday that J&J knew for decades that asbestos, a carcinogen, was in its Baby Powder.
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Glyphosate, the most widely used pesticide, has been listed as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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After conducting some animal studies, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified acrylamide as a carcinogen for humans.
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The link is enough of a concern that the Department of Health & Humans Services named HCAs a likely carcinogen.
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That agency said the chemical was probably able to cause cancer and classified it as a 'Group 2A' carcinogen.
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It's often mined in proximity to asbestos, a known carcinogen, and manufacturers have to take steps to avoid contamination.
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NDMA, N-nitrosodimethylamine, is an impurity that is also considered a possible carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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The reversal from suspected carcinogen to benign cup of joe is partly the result of more comprehensive scientific research.
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For years, coffee was believed to be a possible carcinogen, but the 2015 Dietary Guidelines helped to change perception.
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That impurity, N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA, is classified as a probable human carcinogen, based on results from lab tests.
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Excess nitrates have been linked to blue baby syndrome, and there is evidence that nitrates may be a carcinogen.
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Coffee was considered a potential carcinogen, until overwhelming evidence led to its recognition as part of a healthy diet.
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Young women, Bravo says, "don't want to live every day having to take a carcinogen," falsely referring to hormonal contraception.
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That agency said glyphosate was probably able to cause cancer in humans and classified it as a 'Group 2A' carcinogen.
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" Other organizations, such as the International Agency for Research on Cancer, have warned that acrylamide is a "probable human carcinogen.
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"The biggest source of toxins is through inhalation and crude oil has benzene, which is a carcinogen," explained an environmentalist.
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Almost 60 percent of the kale samples showed residual Dacthal, a pesticide that is known as a possible human carcinogen.
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But some families were still worried about the levels of this carcinogen that can cause cancer, and they temporarily relocated.
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Although some politicians might be arguing about glyphosate, no pesticide regulator in the world considers it to be a carcinogen.
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The FDA had found trace amounts of the carcinogen, which prompted a voluntary recall of 33,000 bottles earlier this month.
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It includes the industrial solvents TCE and 1-bromopropane, and 1,4-dioxane, a carcinogen found in cosmetics and drinking water.
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It had previously put coffee as a "possible carcinogen" in its 2B category alongside chloroform, lead and many other substances.
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The vast majority of kale samples registered the presence of pesticides, including one banned in Europe as a potential carcinogen.
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That agency said glyphosate is "probably" able to cause cancer in humans and classified it as a 'Group 2A' carcinogen.
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When the World Health Organization designated red meat as a class 2 carcinogen, Carleigh Bodrug and her family were shocked.
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In 28503, an Oregon jury awarded 22019 National Guardsmen $85 million for their exposure in Iraq to carcinogen hexavalent chromium.
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IARC had previously put coffee as a "possible carcinogen" in its 2B category alongside chloroform, lead and many other substances.
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It sponsored research that challenged a 2000 decision by the World Health Organization to classify diesel exhaust as a carcinogen.
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The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer has listed asbestos-contaminated talc as a carcinogen since 1987.
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In the neighborhood of Magnolia Park, industrial recycling plants are already known to be emitters of chromium, a potent carcinogen.
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Helicobacter pylori: These bacteria, which reside in the digestive tract, can cause gastric ulcers and are recognized as a bacterial carcinogen.
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Air samples collected in the area also contained above-normal levels of benzene, a known carcinogen, and other potentially dangerous compounds.
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While the substance is widely known as a carcinogen, a federal court blocked the EPA from restricting its use in 1991.
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Natural gas leaks release not only methane, but a host of other dangerous air pollutants as well — like the carcinogen benzene.
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Given that U.S. PIRG only tested a small sample of of school supplies, it's possible others contain this dangerous carcinogen, too.
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Benzene is a known carcinogen, and other evaporated hydrocarbons contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone smog and particulate matter.
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N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA, the impurity the lab tests found, is considered a possible carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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Chrysotile not only sounds less scary, it really is, said Mr. Kochelayev, skimming over the fact that it is a carcinogen.
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This carcinogen is banned by 58 nations and linked to the cancer deaths of nearly 63,000 Americans between 1999 and 2014.
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California added acrylamide to its carcinogen list in January 1990, and the state has successfully taken companies to court over it.
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NDMA is routinely used to induce cancer in lab animals, and it's thought to be a probable human carcinogen as well.
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Now, after a yearlong legal battle, California's environmental health agency has announced that it will list it as a known carcinogen.
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Hobson knew that talc and asbestos often occurred together in the earth, and that mined talc could be contaminated with the carcinogen.
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The latter substance can form the carcinogen benzene when combined with ascorbic acid, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Maybe you'd be even more uneasy if the WHO released a report saying the chemical was a potential carcinogen, but wasn't certain.
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Hobson knew that talc and asbestos often occurred together in the earth and that mined talc could be contaminated with the carcinogen.
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Researchers found the printers tested that used a type of plastic called ABS filament emitted a particle called styrene, a possible carcinogen.
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Now a group of chemists claim they have found troubling levels of formaldehyde gas—a known carcinogen—around these publicly displayed artworks.
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The IARC said that there isn't enough evidence to classify coffee as a carcinogen, but the temperature at which it's consumed matters.
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"Not a lot of people know alcohol is a level-one carcinogen," Harvard Medical School addiction researcher John F. Kelly told me.
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The World Health Organization has classified glyphosate as a "probable human carcinogen," though the product's harm to humans is still being debated.
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It found elevated amounts of benzene, a carcinogen, and other harmful chemicals, but not at levels that are known to endanger health.
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N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, the impurity found in the lab tests, is considered a possible carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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Policymakers largely brushed aside the opinions of two of the bloc's science agencies, which had found that glyphosate was not a carcinogen.
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People shut their doors and windows tight to stop the benzene, a sweet-smelling, highly-flammable carcinogen, from seeping into their homes.
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It can bind to amino acids and DNA in your body and cause changes in the DNA, making it a potential carcinogen.
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J&J faces more than 16,000 lawsuits alleging it sold powders contaminated with asbestos, a known carcinogen, and failed to warn users.
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J&J faces more than 16,000 lawsuits alleging it sold powders contaminated with asbestos, a known carcinogen, and failed to warn users.
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So what if wine is a carcinogen and the alcohol industry has actively worked to downplay the link between drinking and cancer?
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Lumber Liquidators is of course more notorious for having sold laminated flooring, also from China, that contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde, a carcinogen.
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Direct or indirect exposure to the carcinogen can cause lung cancer and mesothelioma, and it has been found to kill 40,000 Americans annually.
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Why would we put a carcinogen in the facility frequented by people who are at increased risk for the very cancer it causes?
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At the time, Canada was the only Western developed country to export asbestos, declared a carcinogen by the World Health Organization in 1987.
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Formaldehyde -- found in cigarette smoke -- is another harmful compound and known human carcinogen, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
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Asbestos is a known carcinogen linked to mesothelioma, the type of cancer Boyd-Bostic had been diagnosed with at the age of 29.
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The next year, after the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer declared glyphosate a probable carcinogen, Mr. Hardeman sued Monsanto.
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According to the FDA, asbestos is a known carcinogen and is often found near talc, which is an ingredient used in many cosmetics.
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That spurred a federal case in the United States over claims that it caused cancer, and prompted California to declare it a carcinogen.
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Asbestos, a naturally occurring mineral and known carcinogen, was once common in insulation and fireproofing materials, but today most developed countries ban it.
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"Asbestos is a human carcinogen and one of the most hazardous substances to which humans are exposed," the EPA wrote in the rule.
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Metal plating facilities in Compton are located near residential neighborhoods and emit the human carcinogen hexavalent chromium in levels that exceed federal standards.
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One problem with seaweed is that the component that helps reduce methane emissions is classified as a carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Formaldehyde, a carcinogen, until recently was a common component of wood products from laminate flooring to particleboard tables, especially those imported from China.
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It's not ethical or even technically feasible to perform more direct forms of research on humans about the effects of a suspected carcinogen.
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The drugs were tainted with N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, an impurity that is considered a possible carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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Last month, the European Medicines Agency placed the firm under high supervision after a probable carcinogen was found in its blood pressure drug valsartan.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies benzene, a component of gasoline stored in some of the tanks that burned, as a known carcinogen.
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The FDA issued a safety alert warning consumers not to use three Claire's products because they had tested positive for asbestos, a known carcinogen.
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2006 classified talcum powder as a possible human carcinogen if used in the female genital area.
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Chaffetz is specifically interested in IARCs controversial report that claims glyphosate, one of the world's most widely-used herbicides, is a probable human carcinogen.
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Exposure to high levels can cause liver damage and is a probable human carcinogen, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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In this case, Lumber Liquidators faced allegations that the imported flooring contained high levels of the carcinogen formaldehyde that violated California's air quality controls.
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" In addition, he cites the insight of his friend Dr. Samuel Broder, a former director of the National Cancer Institute: "Poverty is a carcinogen.
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Exposure to formaldehyde can cause respiratory symptoms, and eye, nose, and throat irritation, according to the agency, which considers it a probable human carcinogen.
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Diesel engines burn fuel more efficiently than gasoline motors, but they produce far more nitrogen oxides, which cause asthma and are considered a carcinogen.
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The recall of 103,210 bottles seems to undercut Johnson & Johnson's defense against thousands of lawsuits that claim its talc products contained the potent carcinogen.
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Health officials said they have been investigating the carcinogen, called N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA, in blood pressure and heart failure medicines since last year.
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Chinese pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals recalled valsartan from consumers in the United States in July after finding traces of a probable carcinogen.
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Another critical rule that's been put on hold by the administration is the workplace safety rule to prevent exposure to the toxic carcinogen beryllium.
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Typical American burials involve pumping a body full of synthetic fillers and formaldehyde, a carcinogen, to preserve a corpse and make it look alive.
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Listing glyphosate as a known carcinogen under California's Proposition 65 would require companies selling the chemical in the state to add warning labels to packaging.
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A few years prior, in 2015, the World Health Organization linked the consumption of processed meat to cancer, and named red meat a likely carcinogen.
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"It's a well known carcinogen, so that could be a very general mechanism as to how alcohol relates to cancer at other sites," she says.
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He explained that the tumors were "of types similar to those" in other research that found radiofrequency from cell phones is a possible carcinogen (PDF).
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A lot of engineered wood is created using an adhesive called urea-formaldehyde, which has recently been labeled by the FDA as a toxic carcinogen.
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California has formally begun a process that could regulate a chemical carcinogen called TCP, which has been linked to cancer for more than two decades.
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The test results mark J&J's latest defense against allegations its baby powder contains asbestos, a known carcinogen that has been linked to deadly mesothelioma.
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While the red M&Ms were not colored with this particular dye, which was a suspected carcinogen, Mars removed the color to avoid customer confusion.
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While evidence on BHT is mixed, BHA is listed in a United States government report on carcinogens as "reasonably anticipated" to be a human carcinogen.
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In a recent case, a group of plaintiffs argued that the talc was contaminated with asbestos, a carcinogen considered unsafe at any level of exposure.
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He describes how his doctor prescribed a blood pressure medicine with a carcinogen, and how his preexisting condition means no lawyer will help him sue.
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Sandoz stopped distributing its Zantac heartburn medicine while regulators investigate the presence of an impurity called NDMA, which is classified as a probable human carcinogen.
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PPG Industries, for example, a paint and coatings manufacturer, uses a chemical called 1,4-dioxane, which the E.P.A. designated "a likely carcinogen," in its products.
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The drugs were tainted with NDEA or NDMA, N-nitrosodimethylamine, an impurity that is also considered a possible carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nitrite is likely a carcinogen used in fertilizers, food preservation and even munitions and explosives.
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The group resisted calls to add warning labels to talc-based products and pressured government agencies to refrain from listing the ingredient as a carcinogen.
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At other times, the cars spewed nitrogen oxides — which cause smog and asthma and are regarded as a carcinogen — in amounts far above legal limits.
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According to the FDA, asbestos is "a naturally occurring mineral that is often found near talc" and is a known carcinogen with many health risks.
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That's one of six minerals – along with chrysotile, actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite and crocidolite – that occur in nature as crystalline fibers known as asbestos, a recognized carcinogen.
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That's one of six minerals — along with chrysotile, actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, and crocidolite — that occur in nature as crystalline fibers known as asbestos, a recognized carcinogen.
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Well, IARC's "confusogenic" classification system aside (note that processed meat is also a probable carcinogen, per IARC), consumers are inconsistent in how we feel about carcinogens.
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The EPA is reviewing scientific data, including the results of a long-term animal study that suggests chromium-6 may be a human carcinogen if ingested.
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In November, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) elected to list asbestos as a "known carcinogen" to be evaluated under a newly-reformed Toxic Substances Control Act.
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The dicamba problem is the latest regulatory woe for Monsanto after California last month announced it would list glyphosate as a probable carcinogen in the state.
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How many people know, for example, that as far back as 22016, the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer designated alcohol a level-one carcinogen?
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For example, in 1991 the World Health Organization had labeled coffee as a "possible carcinogen" based on its apparent links with cancer in the urinary bladder.
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The WHO classified coffee as a possible carcinogen in 1991, for its potential link to bladder cancer, though studies conducted since then have found no connection.
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A widely used herbicide that has been labeled a carcinogen by some organizations has been found in a number of breakfast foods, a new study found.
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The company pulled the powder off of shelves after federal regulators said they found trace amounts of asbestos, a known carcinogen, in a bottle purchased online.
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N-nitrosodiethylamine is a suspected human and animal carcinogen that is used in gasoline and as a lubricant additive, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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The updated Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) finally gave the EPA regulatory authority to protect Americans from dangerous toxic substances like asbestos, a known human carcinogen.
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The EPA's air quality monitoring around the Denka rubber plant, which had been emitting a likely carcinogen called chloroprene into the air, has also been halted.
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Burning fossil fuels also sends carcinogenic particles into the air, like benzene (a chemical linked to childhood leukemia and blood disorders) and formaldehyde (a known carcinogen).
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Asbestos, a known carcinogen that sometimes appears in natural talc, was stripped from all commercially used talc in the 2400s, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Asbestos is a carcinogen that sometimes appears in natural talc but was stripped from commercial talc products in the 1970s, according to the American Cancer Society.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it finished a regulatory review that found glyphosate, the key ingredient in Bayer's Roundup, is not a carcinogen.
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In April, the agency disregarded the advice of its own experts when officials issued a rule that restricted but did not ban asbestos, a known carcinogen.
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Two explosions at the Texas Petroleum Chemical plant sent flames into the sky, injured eight people, and released plumes of butadiene, a carcinogen, into the air.
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The GOP has long accused the agency of using unsound science in its reviews of pesticides, particularly its 2016 finding that glyphosate is likely a carcinogen.
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Vaping e-cigarettes (inhaling vaporized liquid or solid typically through a battery-operated electronic device) gives the smoker the stimulant of nicotine without the carcinogen tar.
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And she knew it afflicted mostly men who inhaled asbestos dust in mines and industries such as shipbuilding that used the carcinogen before its risks were understood.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that glyphosate is not a carcinogen, contradicting decisions by U.S. juries that found it caused cancer in people.
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Alcohol, for example, is a known carcinogen, and we do regulate it but no one seems to be calling for an outright ban on gin and tonics.
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The World Health Organization's research arm has downgraded its classification of coffee as a possible carcinogen, declaring there isn't enough proof to show a link to cancer.
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"It was discovered about 2100 years ago that it is a carcinogen when they exposed rats and mice to very high concentrations in the air," says Klaassen.
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Asbestos is not banned on the federal level, except for a few specific uses, but a 2016 law gave the EPA new authority to prohibit the carcinogen.
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And hair-straightening products that contain formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, have caused allergic reactions, hair loss, rashes, blisters and other problems in salon workers and their customers.
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These link up to an analysis portion where the carcinogen and DNA interact in wells, glowing under a chemical reaction in the presence of a special polymer.
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The health regulator said it will continue to investigate and test all angiotensin II receptor blockers for the presence of NDEA and another probable carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine.
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The herbicide became engulfed in controversy after the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, declared it a probable carcinogen in 2015.
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People acted and, in no time, the LAFD Foundation was able to purchase protective gloves, particulate barrier hoods, carcinogen-containment gear bags and brush fire clearance tools.
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The pharmacy distinguishes itself by testing every batch of drugs it sells for impurities; earlier, it had found a potential carcinogen in valsartan, a blood pressure medicine.
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This weak quality-control system led to last year's announcement that a carcinogen had been found in a popular blood-pressure medicine, prompting a massive FDA recall.
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In September 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concluded a decades-long assessment of glyphosate risks and found that the chemical was not a likely carcinogen to humans.
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CBS's "60 Minutes" program cited the agency's tests in a report last March that alleged the company was selling flooring with excessive levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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Regulators are taking a closer look after finding asbestos, a known carcinogen, in several talc cosmetics and powders, including a bottle of Johnson & Johnson's well-known Baby Powder.
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That December, Flint sent out EPA-mandated notices because the city had violated the Safe Drinking Water Act due to high levels of total trihalomethanes, a suspected carcinogen.
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" The metallic element cobalt and cobalt compounds that release cobalt ions in vivo -- or, inside the body -- are now classified as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.
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In its Report on Carcinogens, the National Toxicology Program of the US Department of Health and Human Services lists consumption of alcoholic beverages as a known human carcinogen.
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In 2015, the World Health Organization's International Center for Cancer Research said glyphosate is considered a "probable carcinogen" — an opinion with which the US Environmental Protection Agency disagrees.
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The White House is reviewing a proposal from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that apparently would require lower levels of a well-known carcinogen in chewing tobacco.
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Formaldehyde can cause lung disease and The Environmental Protection Agency classifies it as a "probable human carcinogen," which means inhaling the substance could increase a person's cancer risk.
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Hyper-partisanship is a carcinogen that has managed to metastasize throughout most of Washington; we shouldn't let veterans issues succumb to it any more than they already have.
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Another thing is the preservatives found in most tattoo ink: One preservative that is fairly common is formaldehyde, which has been classified as a carcinogen by the IARC.
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PFOA, which has been designated as a possible carcinogen, has a half-life of 92 years in the environment and two to eight years in the human body.
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The findings follow previous research from the World Health Organization, which categorized processed meat as a carcinogen after finding that its consumption can cause various types of cancer.
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But the long-term risks are not well known, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency has said there is not enough evidence to classify the chemical as a carcinogen.
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Earlier this month, Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals said it would expand a recall of its heart medication, losartan potassium, after a carcinogen known asN-Nitrosodimethylamine, or NMBA was detected.
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The FDA on Wednesday said it expects companies to be able to manufacture losartan without the probable carcinogen and replenish supplies in the United States in about six months.
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The batches affected were made in Mylan's Hyderabad facility in India and were found to contain N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA), a carcinogen, the European Medicines Agency said here on Monday.
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Global authorities have been clamping down on sales of some blood pressure medicines as they are suspected to be tainted with NDEA and another probable carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA).
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Decades ago, the group listed coffee as a "possible carcinogen" – along with lead and diesel fuel – because of studies that suggested a weak link to bladder and pancreatic cancer.
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The company pulled the powder off of shelves after the Food and Drug Administration said they found trace amounts of asbestos, a known carcinogen, in a bottle purchased online.
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A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine has yielded insight into mutations associated with tumors in pediatric patients and the carcinogen aflatoxin, known to contaminate tobacco.
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That impurity was discovered in July when FDA lab tests determined that some medications containing valsartan were contaminated with a chemical called NDMA, an environmental contaminant and possible carcinogen.
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This earns the agency lots of provocative headlines — and even influences public policy — but there's little evidence their carcinogen-mining has done anything to protect or improve public health.
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At the center of the dispute is acrylamide, a carcinogen found in cooked foods such as French fries that is also a natural byproduct of the coffee roasting process.
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As for that alien pathogen that was going to be released and end life as we know it, presumably the threat died along with the its carcinogen-inhaling architect.
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And as the new IJC study's researchers point out, the keratin treatments that became popular after the 1990s contain or release carcinogen formaldehyde, which could add a new risk.
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Although the air has no signs of asbestos, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said carcinogen-tainted debris could have been thrown stories high, contaminating air conditioners and buildings.
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Central to the criticism of Roundup, however, is a decision by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015 to declare glyphosate a probable carcinogen.
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Food such as potatoes and bread should be cooked until golden rather than brown to reduce exposure to a possible carcinogen, the U.K.'s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said.
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The organization argued roasted coffee should be considered a Prop 65 product, since it contains a suspected carcinogen called acrylamide, meaning that coffee shops needed to attach a warning label.
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There, exposure levels to radiation as well as work schedules are routinely monitored and adjusted to make sure flight attendants don&apost exceed certain guidelines for carcinogen exposure, Mordukhovich said.
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Two consumer-watchdog groups are suing the FDA for failing to investigate and regulate keratin services, which are known to contain formaldehyde — a carcinogen and allergen — and formaldehyde-releasing chemicals.
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So they can deliver nicotine like a regular cigarette, but without the tobacco, burning, or carcinogen-laden smoke — which is why they are generally thought of as a safer alternative.
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In 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the WHO's cancer arm, classified outdoor air pollution as a carcinogen for humans, reporting links to lung and bladder cancer.
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The company also reported a much bigger quarterly loss as it spends heavily to put behind allegations that some of its China-sourced flooring contained excessive levels of a carcinogen.
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Or of being employed by a tire manufacturer and soaking, day in and day out, in a vat of benzene, a chemical we now know to be a potent carcinogen.
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The panel assignment: To offer advice on how the EPA should evaluate and interpret relevant data and how it all should translate into a EPA "carcinogen risk" classification for glyphosate.
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Second, to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, Ms. Collins' carcinogen and radiation dose from her exposure to tobacco smoke most likely did increase her risk for developing pleural mesothelioma.
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The chemicals include formaldehyde, a carcinogen found in wood products and building materials; butylparaben used as a preservative in cosmetics; and triclosan, which is used in toothpaste for treating plaque.
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Health regulators around the world — including the FDA — are investigating whether metformin, a popular drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, contains unsafe amounts of NDMA, a carcinogen, Bloomberg reports.
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Ranitidine is used to treat heartburn, and sold under the brand-name drug Zantac FDA said NDMA is classified as a probable human carcinogen based on results from laboratory tests.
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A paper published last week in JAMA Internal Medicine found extremely high levels of pulegone — a carcinogen that's harmful when ingested in large amounts — in mint and menthol e-cigarettes.
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By Litzenburg's account in counterclaims he eventually filed against the Miller firm, he pioneered the Roundup litigation after reading that the World Health Organization identified glyphosate as a possible carcinogen.
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The company also reported a much bigger quarterly loss as it spends heavily to resolve allegations that some of its China-sourced flooring contained excessive levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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Some worry that it could cause cancer since it's distilled from petroleum, produced during the refining of crude oil—and mildly or untreated mineral oil is known to be a carcinogen.
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A special panel of the World Health Organization dropped its classification of coffee as a possible carcinogen, saying instead that drinking coffee regularly could help protect against uterine and liver cancer.
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Chemicals like formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, have been used in clothing manufacturing to make clothes wrinkle resistant since around the 1950s, when permanent press fabric was created by chemist Ruth Benerito.
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"The FDA decided that the intake of a carcinogen from food must be at least 28,22019-fold less than the maximal dose that doesn't cause cancer in an animal," Jordt said.
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Jordt and his colleague Sairam V. Jabba looked at five popular e-cigarette brands that contain a toxic chemical called pulegone, a carcinogen that can also cause liver and kidney failure.
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" Testifying on behalf of the nonprofit nonpartisan environmental organization Environmental Working Group, Scott Faber said that there is "always some risk that the products produced with talc contain this dangerous carcinogen.
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The research group intended the Albuquerque experiment to be a rebuttal to a 2012 finding by a division of the World Health Organization that had classified diesel exhaust as a carcinogen.
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A review was extended to other 'sartan' medicines, including candesartan, irbesartan, losartan, olmesartan and valsartan, after very low levels of a carcinogen was found in losartan made by Hetero Labs in India.
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Some of the bacteria in this genus are worrying because they produce the carcinogen acetaldehyde when they munch on alcohol, though there's no direct evidence that these mouth bacteria actually cause cancer.
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Last Wednesday, just 217 days after his deposition, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told the healthcare giant it had discovered asbestos, a known carcinogen, in a bottle of Johnsons Baby Powder.
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" Judge Chhabria identified and acknowledged flaws in an assessment by an obscure United Nations' based organization in Paris, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), that glyphosate is a "probable carcinogen.
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Classified as a first-degree carcinogen by the World Health Organization, the invisible nanoparticles known as PM2.5 penetrate deep into the respiratory system and can trigger a variety of illnesses, including cancer.
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One of the most egregious examples is a proposal by France to classify titanium dioxide, a naturally occurring pigment crucial to myriad products from paints to pharmaceuticals to sunscreen, as a carcinogen.
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That chemical "is considered a likely carcinogen and there's no fully safe level," said Erik Olson, director of the health program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, an environmental group.
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The agency finally proposed those new rules last week, saying they would reduce emissions of ethylene oxide, a carcinogen that the EPA recently determined is more dangerous than the agency once believed.
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The review was extended to other 'sartan' medicines, including candesartan, irbesartan, losartan, olmesartan and valsartan, after very low levels of a carcinogen was found in losartan made by Hetero Labs in India.
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer considers it a possible human carcinogen, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the F.D.A. to ban it nearly 20 years ago.
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One of the most widely distributed types, the bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum, is toxic to many animals because it contains high concentrations of ptaquiloside, a poison to livestock and a human carcinogen.
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As Chemical and Engineering News, a publication of the American Chemical Society, explains, the reaction can cause the creation of acrylamide, a potential carcinogen, in highly processed foods cooked at higher temperatures.
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In 2018, widespread recalls of the blood pressure drug valsartan were traced to problems at a single Chinese factory that made the drug's active ingredient, which was contaminated with a possible carcinogen.
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The United States still imports the known carcinogen that's been banned by more than 2628 other countries, but the inability to ban asbestos in the U.S. is not for lack of trying.
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While pork is a global food staple, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Cancer Society list pork, a red meat, as a Group 2A carcinogen, or capable of causing cancer.
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The move comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that some of the pills contained small amounts N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), which the regulator says is a "probable human carcinogen".
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In 2015, a working group of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified processed meat as a carcinogen, saying there was sufficient evidence that it causes colorectal cancer.
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On Thursday, the FDA said that three lots of the drugs made by Torrent Pharmaceuticals were contaminated with a second impurity, N-Nitrosodiethylamine, or NDEA, which is also a suspected human carcinogen.
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For example, during an April 2016 inspection at a Firestone rubber plant in Sulphur, La., E.P.A. inspectors discovered that the plant was emitting illegal levels of butadiene, a carcinogen, into the community.
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The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified acrylamide as a group 2A carcinogen in 2002, meaning they found it could probably cause cancer in people based on animal research.
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Medical experts also testified during the trial that asbestos, a known carcinogen, is intermingled with mineral talc, which is the primary ingredient in Johnson & Johnson&aposs Baby Powder and Shower to Shower products.
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"EPA continues to find that there are no risks to public health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label and that glyphosate is not a carcinogen," the agency said Tuesday.
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In one, Ms. Roys calmly lifts her sweater and lets her fussing baby nurse, while discussing a bill she helped pass in the Wisconsin Legislature banning BPA, a suspected carcinogen, from baby bottles.
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Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday that it did not find asbestos in multiple tests of a bottle of baby powder that the Food and Drug Administration said contained trace amounts of the carcinogen.
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It followed by several days the publication of a Reuters investigation (here) that found the healthcare conglomerate knew for decades that the carcinogen lurked in its Baby Powder and other cosmetic talc products.
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"The most appropriate and scientifically based evaluation of the cancers reported in humans and laboratory animals as well as supportive mechanistic data is that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen," the report states.
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The company had just been accused of selling baby powder that contained asbestos, a known carcinogen, and then covering it up for decades – something my research said was just simply not the case.
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It's common for studies like this to use improbable amounts of a potential toxin or carcinogen: If no effects are found under worst-case-scenarios, there's no need to keep testing lower doses.
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The judge's March 28 ruling found that Starbucks and other companies had failed to show there was no significant risk from acrylamide, a carcinogen produced in the coffee roasting process, court documents showed.
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The IARC brought together 23 scientists to review studies on the cancer-related properties of both coffee and maté herbal tea, and determined that there is "inadequate evidence" that either are a carcinogen.
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Trace amounts of an industrial chemical and suspected carcinogen are hanging out in much of the nation's drinking water supply, per a report published Wednesday by the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization.
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Three companies that sell the generic drug, valsartan, in the United States agreed to recall it after the F.D.A. said it might be tainted by N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), considered a probable human carcinogen.
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A quarter-mile up the hill, workers in Hazmat suits had applied 22000 pounds of a carcinogen to contain a bacterial outbreak at a waste pond for the gas wells near his home.
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Despite irrefutable scientific evidence calling out the dangers of asbestos, 2 million tons of the carcinogen are exported every year to the developing world, where it's often handled with little to no regulation.
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The cancer claims against Roundup spring from an assessment by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, which categorized glyphosate as a probable carcinogen in 2015.
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One of those compounds, benzene, is a known carcinogen and was found in a package of six magnetic markers purchased on Amazon and produced by The Board Dudes, a brand owned by Mattel.
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Most experts believe that processed meats, like hot dogs, bacon, ham and salami, are a carcinogen, but the evidence for the belief has depended mainly on studies of colorectal, pancreatic and prostate cancers.
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" In a 2003 email, a different Monsanto executive tells others, "You cannot say that Roundup is not a carcinogen … we have not done the necessary testing on the formulation to make that statement.
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Story at a glance In California state legislature, a new battle is taking shape over whether or not a popular painkiller, acetaminophen, will be labeled as a carcinogen, according to an AP report.
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State media reported the chemical that caused the explosion was benzene, a highly flammable and toxic compound classified as a carcinogen, adding that the pesticide factory failed a government safety inspection last year.
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It had also discussed paying a six-figure penalty to settle claims by the Obama administration that it was illegally emitting 80 tons each year of hazardous chemicals, like benzene, a known carcinogen.
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against medical sterilization company Sterigenics accusing it of violating the state's environmental protection law by releasing a known carcinogen at its Willowbrook, Illinois plant.
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The drugs that have been recalled by the FDA have been contaminated with a few different impurities including N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, which is considered a possible carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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The nonpartisan organization dedicated to protecting public health filed a lawsuit Wednesday charging the FDA with a failure to respond to the danger posed by hair-straightening treatments that contain formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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Tests of Zantac and other ranitidine medications found N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, an impurity that is considered a possible carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency, the FDA and Health Canada said in September.
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Residents of the surrounding neighborhood of Manchester complained of foul-smelling air, and EDF measured levels of the carcinogen benzene that soared over some state standards, ProPublica and the Texas Tribune reported last week.
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On top of that, U.S. regulators delayed approval of a key new weed killer, dicamba, and glyphosate, the herbicide key to its Roundup weedkiller, was labeled a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
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After his experiments, the budding researcher was supposed to kill the tumor-ridden worms from the carcinogen group, but he had become too attached; his dad had to put them in the freezer instead.
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According to the emails released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to American Oversight, staffers worried about a safety warning placed on the desk from California — which classifies formaldehyde as a carcinogen.
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N-Nitrosodiethylamine or NDEA is a suspected human and animal carcinogen that is used in gasoline as a stabilizer for industry materials and as a lubricant additive, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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I realized that I had to be hyper-educated just to make sure that I didn't buy the ones that had toxic BPA in it — a carcinogen that every other developed country had banned.
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According to the emails released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to American Oversight, staffers worried about a safety warning placed on the desk from California -- which classifies formaldehyde as a carcinogen.
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EMA said on Monday low levels of a carcinogen have now also been found in irbesartan made by Aurobindo Pharma, with the supply in the EU of medicines containing irbesartan in EU being suspended.
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Denka asked IRIS to "correct" its assessment of chloroprene by changing its classification from a "probable" to "suggestive" human carcinogen and replacing the safety limit for chloroprene with one that is 156 times higher.
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A public interest group said this week that it had found toxic substances in a number of school supplies, including asbestos in a Playskool crayon and another carcinogen, benzene, in a dry-erase marker.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration acknowledged the liver damage can be a potential side effect, but noted that labeling the painkiller as a carcinogen would be "false and misleading," as well as illegal.
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"Glyphosate should not be classified as a carcinogen, that is, as a substance causing cancer," Tim Bowmer, chairman of the committee for risk assessment at the European Chemicals Agency, said at a news briefing.
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Had the provisions been scrapped, "it would have marked the first time in history that the agency had weakened a health standard protecting workers from a known human carcinogen," he said in a statement.
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The move comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked the company to test the drug for indications of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) impurity, which the regulator says is a "probable human carcinogen".
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In that case, a whistle-blower who worked for a Koch refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, told authorities that the company had covered up the fact that it was "hemorrhaging" benzene, a known carcinogen.
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The impurity, N-Nitroso-N-methyl-4-aminobutyric acid or NMBA, is also classified as a known animal carcinogen, the US Food And Drug Administration noted in a news release about the recall Friday.
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The jury, in Middlesex County Superior Court, not far from Johnson & Johnson's New Brunswick headquarters, found that Ricardo Rimondi hadn't proved that he was exposed to asbestos, a carcinogen, via the company's baby powder.
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Health organizations globally recognize asbestos as a carcinogen, causing cancers like mesothelioma and ovarian cancer, especially among people like miners, construction workers, and factory employees who have been exposed to it in large quantities.
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S). The discovery means that some of the 22016 billion pills containing valsartan sold worldwide last year to prevent heart attacks and strokes had traces of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), classified as a probable human carcinogen.
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The hit list features some well known enemies like asbestos, as well as some lesser known dangers like 1,4-dioxane, a possible carcinogen from consumer products that is highly prevalent in groundwater and indoor environments.
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The company, which owns brands such as Bellawood hardwood flooring, faced several legal actions in 5.473 after a CBS report alleged some of the company's flooring products had high levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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The state agency said in September that it planned to add glyphosate to the list after the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified it as a probable human carcinogen last March.
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The EMA said this week it was working to establish how long and at what levels patients might have been exposed to the impurity known as NDMA, which is classified as a probable human carcinogen.
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Though IARC hasn't labeled water a carcinogen, the agency's exclusive focus on hazard explains why IARC has assessed nearly 1,000 substances and activities and found only one that was "probably not likely" to cause cancer.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a rule to require lower levels of a well-known carcinogen in chewing tobacco and other finished smokeless products that use cut, ground, powdered or leaf tobacco.
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization, said on Wednesday that coffee can not be classified as a carcinogen, based on a review of more than 1,000 studies.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a rule to require lower levels of a well-known carcinogen in chewing tobacco and other finished smokeless products that use cut, ground, powdered or leaf tobacco.
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S). The discovery means that some of the 22016 billion pills containing valsartan sold worldwide last year to prevent heart attacks and strokes had traces of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), classified as a probable human carcinogen.
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The FDA said it has been investigating the carcinogen, called N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA, in blood pressure and heart failure medicines since last year and is evaluating whether low levels pose a risk to patients.
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But in 2505, a little-known division of the E.P.A. called the Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, had assessed chloroprene to be a likely human carcinogen and calculated a new safety limit for it.
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That connection is backed up by other scientific agencies: The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies PFOA as a possible human carcinogen, and the EPA says PFOA and PFOS may be linked to cancer.
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In the summer of 1989, George H.W. Bush's administration announced plans to finally ban the notorious carcinogen asbestos, which is responsible for more than 107,85033 deaths worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization.
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Tanning beds have been categorized as a group-203 carcinogen, the same level as tobacco and plutonium, said lead study author Sherry Pagoto, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
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According to USA Today, the FDA announcement regarding Siwa's makeup kit came just three months after other Claire's products were pulled from the shelves for also containing asbestos, a carcinogen linked to lung cancer and mesothelioma.
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What's more, several studies report that heating propylene glycol and glycerin under normal vaping conditions can produce an array of toxic chemicals, including benzene, a known human carcinogen, and fine particles, which can cause heart disease.
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With a carcinogen such as lead, it is a maximum of 265 micrograms/liter of lead per day, which is below the amount of lead in the average serving size of the majority of balsamic vinegars.
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Plus, the sun is a known carcinogen, so it's hard to ensure that he gets enough outdoor sun exposure to raise his D levels but not so much that he raises his risk of skin cancer.
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The culprit is a chemical produced in the bean roasting process that is a known carcinogen and has been at the heart of an eight-year legal struggle between a tiny nonprofit group and Big Coffee.
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They notched a major victory in March 2015 when the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer arm, declared glyphosate is a probable carcinogen despite limited evidence of human carcinogenicity.
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I put the bottle to one side of my desk while I pondered not only the advisability of ingesting a likely carcinogen but also the fact that I actually enjoy exercise and get plenty of it.
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But N-nitrosodimethylamine, a probable human carcinogen, was also found in batches of valsartan made by Zhejiang Tianyu, although at much lower levels than in the case of Zhejiang Huahai, the EMA said in a statement.
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For example, in a study funded by the American Chemistry Council, Dourson has argued for a safe exposure level of the carcinogen trichloroethylene (TCE) that is up to 15 times higher than the EPA's recommended level.
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Glyphosate is also at the center of a federal case in the United States over claims that it causes cancer, and California has declared it a carcinogen, following in the footsteps of the international cancer agency.
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Light said the pharmacy company analyzes samples of every batch of every medicine it dispenses, and that it adopted analytical techniques recommended by the FDA to screen for NDMA and N-Nitrosodiethylamine or NDEA, another carcinogen.
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A new study with female rats found that those that were the most fit were much less likely than other animals to develop cancer after exposure to a known carcinogen, even if they did not exercise.
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Presley, former CEO of First Capital Bancorp Inc, took the helm at Lumber Liquidators five months after Robert Lynch resigned following a report that the company sourced flooring laminates with harmful levels of a known carcinogen.
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The nitrosamine impurity known as N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA has been classified as a probable human carcinogen based on lab tests, and this isn't the first time that it has been detected in a common medication.
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"Asbestos is a known carcinogen that kills tens of thousands of people every year, yet the Trump administration is choosing to ignore the very serious health risks it poses," Healey, a Democrat, said in a statement.
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Helping temper those losses, German drugmaker Bayer was the biggest boost to the pan-region index after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Bayer's Roundup weed killer, is not a carcinogen.
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The list also includes Diovan, the brand name version of blood pressure treatment valsartan, generic versions of which are currently in shortage after a potential carcinogen was detected in active ingredients made in China, prompting widespread recalls.
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Although tanning beds are now known to cause skin damage and cancer (they were officially classified as a carcinogen in 2009), it wasn't clear at the time, and most of her peers on campus were tanning too.
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The retailer named the chemicals including formaldehyde, a carcinogen found in wood products and building materials, in the wake of pressure from consumers who are increasingly becoming conscious of what goes into their food and household items.
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared glyphosate "a probable human carcinogen" last year, heightening consumer concern about the use of the herbicide on our foods.
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Health agencies have largely agreed with J&J in asserting that there is no clear link between consumer talcum powders and cancer, but the World Health Organization has long ruled that talc found with asbestos is a carcinogen.
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Last month the Environmental Working Group in the US filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration for failing to respond to the dangers posed by chemicals in hair straightening treatments such as formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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Over the past year, global health authorities have been cracking down on valsartan and drugs containing the substance as an active ingredient after several batches were found to contain NDEA and a second possible carcinogen, N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA).
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"Arsenic is a known carcinogen that can influence risk of cardiovascular, immune and other diseases," said Margaret Karagas, an epidemiologist who studies the effects of toxic metals at Dartmouth College, and the lead researcher on the new study.
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The settlements announced by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday came four years after Lumber Liquidators was alleged to be selling products with illegally high levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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But glyphosate, which accounts for about a quarter of the global market, has been plunged into controversy since the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, declared it a probable carcinogen in 2015.
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From a story in The Palo Alto Weekly, Ms. Armstrong learned that the Environmental Protection Agency had officially declared trichloroethylene (TCE), a solvent commonly found in degreasing agents, spot cleaners and old Silicon Valley semiconductor plants, a carcinogen.
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They point out that the EPA's proposal makes determinations on the safety of asbestos products on a case-by-case basis, which means the agency could in theory approve new items for sale that contain the deadly carcinogen.
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Talc is a naturally occurring clay mineral composed of magnesium and silicon that is mined in proximity to asbestos, a known carcinogen, and the Food and Drug Administration asks manufacturers to take steps to avoid contamination with asbestos.
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The move comes after the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency announced earlier this month that tests showed some ranitidine products contained NDMA, which is classified as a probable human carcinogen based on lab tests.
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It's a known carcinogen, and it may be listed under a handful of names on your product bottle (methylene glycol, diazolidinyl urea in face and hair care, and quaternium-15, which is typically found in face makeup, especially powders).
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Most recently, the U.S. unit of Indian generic drugmaker Aurobindo Pharma Ltd expanded the recall of its hypertension medicines containing valsartan to 38 more lots due to the presence of probable carcinogen, N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA), the FDA said bit.
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"Never in OSHA's history has the agency decided to roll back worker protections for a carcinogen," Deborah Berkowitz, OSHA's former chief of staff, wrote the agency on behalf of the National Employment Law Project, a nonprofit workers rights group.
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The company paid $9.5 million in legal bills in the quarter to settle several lawsuits that followed a CBS report in 2015 that alleged that some of the company's flooring products had high levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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Sales of Lumber Liquidators, which owns brands such as Bellawood hardwood flooring, have been hammered since CBS published a report last year that alleged that some of the company's flooring products had high levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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Risks: Diapers that are bleached with chlorine emit traces of dioxins, a class of chemicals that the Environmental Protection Agency considers a "likely human carcinogen" and has been linked to cancer, reproductive, and immune-system problems in animal studies.
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The Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics facility in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., entered national news last year amid a fight over perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a carcinogen, in the town's water, caused by the plant that was previously owned by Honeywell International.
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In January, the company told the agency that the EPA's risk assessment was flawed because it was based on an initial estimate from Dow that its St. Charles Parish plant had released 22003 tons of the carcinogen in 2014.
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In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the devices are a "Class 2B carcinogen," meaning they possibly can cause cancer in humans — but that's also a distinction they share with pickles, aloe vera, and being a carpenter.
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High levels of the carcinogen benzene were detected in a Houston neighborhood close to a Valero Energy refinery, local health officials said Tuesday, heightening concerns over potentially hazardous leaks from oil and gas industry sites damaged by Hurricane Harvey.
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Johnson & Johnson, which has spent years insisting that its baby powder is safe, recalled 33,000 bottles of the product on Friday after the Food and Drug Administration discovered evidence of asbestos, a known carcinogen, in one of the bottles.
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The group had tested e-cigarettes and nicotine liquids made by Juul and over a dozen other companies and found levels of formaldehyde, a carcinogen created when e-cigarettes containing certain chemicals are heated, that exceeded the California limit.
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Health regulators in the European Union, United States and Canada had already recalled drugs made with the company's active pharmaceutical ingredient valsartan after finding traces of the chemical N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), considered a potential human carcinogen, in the medicine.
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FROM COINAGE: Try This Healthy, Cheap Late-Night Snack The research is also in line with the World Health Organization's 2015 decision to classify processed meats as a Group 1 carcinogen, based on previous evidence that they can cause cancer.
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Common VOCs detected included formaldehyde (an organic compound and a known carcinogen), styrene (a flammable chemical and irritant), and caprolactam (a particularly nasty manufacturing compound that can cause irritation and burning of the eyes and throat, headaches, confusion, and gastrointestinal problems).
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Blumberg pointed out that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has designated glyphosate as a "probable human carcinogen," a hotly contested designation amid a federal lawsuit brought by people who claim they developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from Roundup.
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The company is pursuing this strategy despite the evidence that talc in its raw and finished powders sometimes tested positive for the carcinogen from the 1970s into the early 2000s — test results that the company didn't disclose to regulators or consumers.
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With pizza boxes joining the possible-carcinogen rankings of well-done fries, burnt bread, red meat, and cured meats in the last few months alone, it can seem as if there is a bogeyman behind many of our favorite foods.
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The company, which is based in eastern China's Zhejiang province and makes bulk ingredients for drugmakers, told customers in late June that it had found N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, which is classified as a probable human carcinogen, in its valsartan.
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"Although welders have been observed to experience higher lung cancer rates, there are many other factors - including smoking, asbestos and other carcinogen exposures - that were likely contributing to that increased risk," Blagev, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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Bayer said the jury was presented with "cherry-picked findings" inconsistent with a statement last month by the US Environmental Protection Agency, which announced that glyphosate was not a carcinogen and posed no public health risk when used as directed.
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The conclusions appear to contradict a finding by the WHO's Lyon-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which in March 2015 said glyphosate is "probably" able to cause cancer in humans and classified it as a 'Group 2A' carcinogen.
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Despite having been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a "probable human carcinogen," not only has 1,4-dioxane not been banned by the Food and Drug Administration, but many companies still aren't required to list it on their product labels.
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Read more here Group finds weed-killing chemical in dozens of breakfast foods A widely used herbicide that has been labeled a carcinogen by some organizations has been found in a number of breakfast foods, according to a new study.
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Since the EPA regulates environmental exposures, this distinction about the chemical's cancer risk matters for public health and the chemical industry: elevating formaldehyde to a known carcinogen would likely prompt class-action lawsuits from cancer patients, as well as tougher regulations.
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Last year the argument got more heated after a team of international cancer scientists working with the World Health Organization (WHO) said that there was sufficient evidence in the body of research to classify glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.
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But most mainstream health authorities feel the same: A recent study found that herbal cigarettes have a lot of the same toxic compounds as tobacco cigarettes—simply because they release smoke—minus nicotine and the harmful, tobacco-specific carcinogen nitrosamine.
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It detected the carcinogen in half of 20 products, including Claire's eye shadow and compact powder, JoJo Siwa makeup sold at Claire's, and bronzers, blush and other makeup made by Beauty Plus Global City Color Cosmetics and sold in retail outlets.
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2006 classified talcum powder as a possible human carcinogen if used in the female genital area, but no federal agencies have acted to remove talcum powder from the market or add warnings.
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Bayer, meanwhile, in its appeal cited findings by the Environmental Protection Agency that glysophate is not a carcinogen or a public health risk when used in compliance with current approved labeling, and that adding a warning label would contradict federal guidance.
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Customers can return products The nitrosamine impurity known as N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, has been classified as a probable human carcinogen based on lab tests, and this isn't the first time that it has been detected in a common medication.
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Depending on which brand of pumpkin-spice syrup is being used in whatever you're eating/drinking/fellating, here's what's probably making your nonfat latte taste "just like fall": High-fructose corn syrup (or actual bone char-refined sugar if you're lucky), "natural" and artificial flavors (LOL), citric acid (whatever), sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (MY FAVES), caramel color (alleged carcinogen), carrageenan (fellow alleged carcinogen which some people think causes intestinal inflammation, but who really knows, right?), milk (probably came from the saddest, most hormone-fattened perma-pregnant cow ever with infected udders), and some other sodium/potassium/xanthan crap.
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The issue of whether ranitidine, commonly known as Zantac, causes levels of the probable carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) to rise in patients' bodies has been raised previously by Valisure, an online pharmacy that originally flagged the potential contamination of ranitidine to the FDA.
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As it turns out, "involuntary smoking" is much less dangerous than the powers-that-be thought—unless, that is, you're referring to the carcinogen-laden smoke you're likely absorbing through your skin each time you're in the vicinity of a summer cookout.
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For example, that we wouldn't be able to get rid of sugar, talc [a mineral that is not a known carcinogen but that can be dangerous when contaminated with asbestos], or PVP [a plastic] in the types of encapsulations we were working with.
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In September, after a global recall of valsartan products, the FDA and the European Medicines Agency announced that another known carcinogen called N-Nitrosodiethylamine, or NDEA, had also been found in valsartan made by Huahai and by India's Torrent Pharmaceuticals, another manufacturer.
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The US National Toxicology Program, part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, has not fully reviewed talc as a possible carcinogen, according to the American Cancer Society, which says it isn't clear whether the products increase a person's cancer risk.
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For example, methadone, a common narcotic that is often provided as a substitute to heroin addicts, is not a carcinogen in itself, but after going through the treatment system and getting exposed to chlorine, it can transform to nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), which is carcinogenic.
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Those at risk of coming in contact with cancer-causing substances on the job include:• aluminum workers• painters• tar pavers (who come in contact with the carcinogen benzene)• rubber manufacturers• hairdressers who deal with dyes daily• nail-salon workers breathing in dangerous fumes
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" Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an interim review that said the agency "continues to find that there are no risks to public health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label and that glyphosate is not a carcinogen.
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But another division, the Office of Pesticide Programs, was dismissive of epidemiological studies and determined that glyphosate was not a carcinogen, a view that prevailed at the E.P.A., according to interviews, emails and an internal memo obtained by The New York Times.
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CVS Health said on Saturday it will discontinue sales the popular Zantac heartburn treatment and its own generic ranitidine products from its pharmacies after traces of a known carcinogen were found in some of the products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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The litigation was touched off by a determination made nearly two years ago by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, that glyphosate was a probable carcinogen, citing research linking it to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Photo: APOfficials with California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) have intervened to nullify a recent court ruling saying coffee sold in the state—say, like at a local Starbucks—must be accompanied by warning labels saying brewed coffee contains the carcinogen acrylamide.
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These messages, along with a 2015 decision by the International Agency of Research into Cancer (IARC) to classify the chemical as a probable carcinogen, have spurred a group of plaintiffs to file a lawsuit against Roundup's manufacturer, Monsanto, alleging the herbicide caused their cancer.
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They claim that the company acted negligently by failing to prevent creosote, a probable carcinogen, from spreading underground and in the air from a rail yard where it was used from 1950 to 1985, and failing to warn residents against the substance's associated health risks.
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In response, more than 40 water districts in California have brought lawsuits against Dow and Shell, the manufacturers of pesticides that produce the chemical, alleging that the companies knowingly contaminated the state's water supplies with the carcinogen TCP and should pay to clean it up.
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The letter outlined a test the authors had done to measure the levels of formaldehyde (a known carcinogen) emitted from an e-cigarette, writing that the device tested puffed out as much as five times the formaldehyde as cigarettes when on the highest heat setting.
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That reduction would barely make up for the ethylene oxide that's likely to be emitted by a planned Formosa Chemicals plant in St. James Parish, which according to permitting documents will release up to 7.7 tons of the carcinogen into the atmosphere each year.
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Reuters said it examined documents, including depositions and trial testimony, that show that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, J&J's raw talc and finished baby powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, a human carcinogen that can cause cancer.
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A variety of toxins are allowed to be dumped at the Stebbings Road site by the company South Island Aggregates (SIA) including hydrocarbons, dioxins, furans, benzene (a carcinogen that causes leukemia and anemia), toluene (a solvent and neurotoxin particularly dangerous to children), and xylene.
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But many are closely watching whether Mr. Duque will increase the use of aerial fumigation to destroy coca crops, a technique that was suspended for a time by his predecessor, Juan Manuel Santos, over concerns that the chemical used, glyphosate, was a potential carcinogen.
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The enormous explosion at the East Coast's largest refinery last June spewed tons of corrosive chemicals into the air, but a new investigation has found that the Philadelphia facility was previously leaking dangerously high levels of a carcinogen into the surrounding, predominantly black neighborhood.
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However, only the Feinstein-Collins bill would give the FDA the authority to order mandatory recalls and conduct annual investigations on the safety of five cosmetic contaminants: methylene glycol (a form of formaldehyde and a recognized carcinogen), propylparaben, lead acetate, diazolidinyl urea and quaternium-15.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Additional shortages of blood pressure drugs in the United States are possible following recent recalls related to traces of a probable carcinogen found in some versions a particular class of hypertension medicines, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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FDA tests showed that the recalled lots of these drugs contained N-Nitrosodiethylamine or NDEA, a suspected human and animal carcinogen that is used in gasoline as a stabilizer for industry materials and as a lubricant additive, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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Plant scientists are already using Crispr and related technologies to reshape food crops in dramatic ways—editing wheat to reduce gluten, editing soybeans to produce a healthier oil, editing corn to produce higher yields, editing potatoes to store better (and not throw off a carcinogen when cooked).
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Still, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, listed talcum powder used in the female genital area as a possible carcinogen in 2006 and again in 2010, but the IARC noted that bias in the studies couldn't be ruled out.
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Classifying titanium dioxide as a carcinogen would severely limit its use in most applications, creating serious consequences for the U.S. The substance is used in a vast volume of products both exported to and imported from the EU and in most cases, there are no available substitutes.
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The drug is being recalled because the active ingredient has tested positive for N-Nitrosodiethylamine or NDEA, a suspected human and animal carcinogen that is used in gasoline as a stabilizer for industry materials and as a lubricant additive, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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Though 1,13-dioxane has been classified as a likely carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other regulatory agencies for decades, it's only in recent years that health officials have tried to measure how much of it the average person is exposed to via drinking water.
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A coalition of five groups representing farmers and food-safety advocates have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal appeals court, accusing it of having unlawfully determined that glyphosate, the most widely used weedkiller in the United States, is not a carcinogen when used as indicated.
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And in the lead-up to Harvey, refineries along the Gulf Coast burned off a lot of chemicals: Chevron's Baytown plant alone flared 766,000 pounds of various chemicals including carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and benzene — a known carcinogen — according its own filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has said that Roundup's active ingredient is safe for people when used in accordance with label directions, but the France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of the World Health Organization, classified it as a "probable human carcinogen" in 2015.
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Industry swagger is on full display in Washington where Monsanto and its friends at CropLife America are driving efforts to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) after IARC scientists declared glyphosate a probable human carcinogen in March 2015.
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Glyphosate, which is the key ingredient in Monsanto Co.'s Roundup herbicide, is the most widely used herbicide in the world, and concerns about glyphosate residues in food spiked after the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015 said its cancer experts determined glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen.
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Photo: Matt Rourke (AP)Johnson & Johnson, which lost a lawsuit brought by 0003 women and their families who claimed their ovarian mesotheliomas were caused by talc products contaminated with the carcinogen asbestos to the tune of $4.69 billion in July, has failed to have the verdict thrown out on jurisdictional grounds.
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Even if e-cigarettes don't contain the same harmful ingredients as cigarettes, health experts note that they contain nicotine, which is addictive, and a study published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that flavored e-cigarette liquids contain harmful chemicals, including diacetyl, which is a known carcinogen.
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The council and Sterigenics had been lobbying the E.P.A. for several years not to classify ethylene oxide as a known human carcinogen, and Mr. Roskam — whose spokeswoman declined to make him available for an interview — had supported legislation to put industry representatives on the E.P.A. boards that make such decisions.
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One reason you've heard that, though, is that, as mentioned above, there are a lot of GE crops designed to be used with the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, which was labeled a "probable carcinogen" by the International Association for Cancer Research, a World Health Organization committee, in 2015.
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"We need to ask ourselves how it is possible - despite pharmacopoeias and agency guidelines, inspection programs with coordination across continents, a system of public quality control, and companies complying with all rules - that a nasty carcinogen can find its way into our drugs and be there for years without anyone noticing," he said.
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Plus, the continued use of pesticides on our farmlands is poisoning our soils, water systems and the air we breathe – a recent study found that 93% of Americans test positive for glyphosate, the most heavily sprayed herbicide in the world and one the World Health Organization has categorized as a possible carcinogen.
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"We need to ask ourselves how it is possible - despite pharmacopoeias and agency guidelines, inspection programs with coordination across continents, a system of public quality control, and companies complying with all rules - that a nasty carcinogen can find its way into our drugs and be there for years without anyone noticing," he said.
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In an in-depth Reuters investigation, which examined decades' worth of internal company and court documents, the outlet found that from 1971 to the early 2000s, Johnson & Johnson had been made aware that the talc in their products sometimes tested positive for the carcinogen, and didn't share the news outside of the company.
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To the Editor: Re "In Russian City, Making Asbestos Great Again" (news article, April 9): It is accepted in the scientific community that (white) chrysotile, the form of asbestos mined in the Russian city of Asbest, is a less potent carcinogen than the other two common forms of asbestos, brown and blue.
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On April 30, the EPA reaffirmed prior guidance saying that glyphosate is not a carcinogen and not a risk to public health when used in accordance with its current label.. Citing the EPA decision, Bayer has repeatedly rebuked plaintiffs' calls to add a cancer warning to Roundup, saying the agency would reject that change.
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Indeed, a number of the ingredients listed below are banned or restricted in the EU. Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is banned, along with petrolatum, "except if the full refining history is known and it can be shown that the substance from which it is produced is not a carcinogen," the EU Cosmetics Regulation states.
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On April 30, the EPA reaffirmed prior guidance saying that glyphosate is not a carcinogen and not a risk to public health when used in accordance with its current label.. Citing the EPA decision, Bayer has repeatedly rebuked plaintiffs' calls to add a cancer warning to Roundup, saying the agency would reject that change.
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In an in-depth investigation from Reuters, which examined decades worth of internal company documents and court documents, the outlet found that from 1971 to the early 2000s, Johnson and Johnson had been made aware that the talc in their products sometimes tested positive for the carcinogen, and did not share the news outside of the company.
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The other nine chemicals the group lists include PERC – a probable carcinogen that appears in dry-cleaning fluid, spot removers and water repellants; phthalate chemicals in PVC plastics, toys and plastic wrap linked to early puberty in girls; and BPA found in food cans, food containers and cash register receipts that is linked to infertility and diabetes.
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The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday consolidated 15 lawsuits and more than 125 "tag along" actions that have been filed against the makers of brand-name Zantac and generic ranitidine since last fall, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found low levels of NMDA, a potential human carcinogen, in some samples of ranitidine products.
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The United States National Toxicology Program didn't add talc to its 2005 Congressional Report on Carcinogens despite meetings concluding that women's use of talc in the genital area is "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen," and while they couldn't determine if talc caused lung cancer too, they did agree it remains in the lungs for years.
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In October 2017, Reuters claimed that the IARC appeared to have edited or deleted data that was at odds with its conclusion of glyphosate being a "probable carcinogen," while other critics claim that the IARC was looking at hazards (conditions that have the potential for harm), rather than risk assessment (the likelihood of those hazards actually causing harm).
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"Firefighters spend large portions of their shift waiting for calls in a station, during which they can be exposed to diesel exhaust from idling trucks (which is a known carcinogen) and off-gassing from contaminated post-fire gear (which may be contaminated with a variety of known and/or possible carcinogens)," researchers point out in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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FDA's original statement on its website remains unchanged) By Alexandra Harney and Michael Erman SHANGHAI/NEW YORK, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it will no longer allow imports of drug ingredients or medicines made with ingredients produced at China's Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals Chuannan factory, after a recall of one of its drugs that contained a probable carcinogen.
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The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer looked at the evidence and chose, back in 2011, to classify radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as a possible human carcinogen (note for context that there are 298 other things classified that way, and that this is a less-certain designation than the "probably carcinogenic" list, which includes the consumption of red meat and very hot liquids).
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