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A Rough Guide to the IARC’s Carcinogen Classifications

13-Jun-2016

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A Rough Guide to the IARC’s Carcinogen Classifications

Today’s big news has been the story that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified processed meat (including bacon, ham, and salami) as a Group 1 carcinogen. This places it in the same group as smoking, which has led to a number of headlines claiming that it means the risk from the two is the same. It isn’t – and today’s post takes a close look at the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s classification system in order to explain why.

Topics
  • cancer
  • carcinogenic substances
  • carcinogenicity
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