USA 8 substances added to their list of carcinogens

Written by Sandeep Nehra

The U.S. Department of Health has added eight substances to its list of chemical and biological carcinogens in its latest annual report on this subject on Friday.

Formaldehyde, an industrial product in this particular of chipboard glues and aristolochic acid produced by certain plants in the twelfth edition of this report now contains 240 carcinogens.

Both substances like the other six included in this report are already established carcinogens.

The six others added by the Ministry of Health are captafol (a fungicide), cobalt combined with tungsten carbide (powder or as a hard metal), some of respirable glass fibers, o-nitrotoluene (an agent synthetic), styrene and riddelliine (an alkaloid found in certain plants).

“Reducing exposure to these carcinogens is something we definitely want to increase and the report on carcinogens provides important information on substances with a risk of cancer,” said in a statement Linda Birnbaum, director of the Institute National Environmental Health and the National Toxicology Program.

The U.S. report on carcinogens can be accessed at Internet address: http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/roc12.

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