PCBs are actually not carcinogenic unless you repeatedly overdose a laboratory mouse with them.
The chemical was banned after it was found to have potentially carcinogenic - or cancer causing - effects.
Instead, he said some of the chemicals produced by the breakdown of cholesterol were known to be carcinogenic.
That category includes 266 other carcinogenic agents including coffee and pickled vegetables .
Another Pfizer chemist, John Lowe, had created a promising schizophrenia drug, but lab tests indicated it might be carcinogenic.
PCBs are actually not carcinogenic-unless you repeatedly overdose a laboratory mouse with them.
If twins had similar rates of cancer, despite differences in smoking habits, it would have suggested that smoking wasn't carcinogenic.
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Chlorine is often used to disinfect produce but leaves behind carcinogenic by-products.
Moreover, they complain that the Metsa-Botnia installation will not use the cleanest available production technology, meaning that it may emit potentially carcinogenic dioxins.
Their default is that if there's any credible evidence whatsoever, even in just a few studies, they'll put something on their 'possibly carcinogenic' list.
But as early as 2006, tests showed that some of the trailers contained dangerously high levels of formaldehyde, a carcinogenic chemical used in building materials.
Cox-2 inhibitors represent an approach to interdict in the carcinogenic process.
The carcinogenic danger of CFLs has been known for some time.
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Campaigners worry that incinerators produce dioxins (a highly toxic family of chemicals that can cause cancer and birth defects) and tiny particles of soot (also carcinogenic).
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She also said the news was a "very serious development" and demanded action to ensure that "illegal and carcinogenic horsemeat stops entering the human food chain".
Ironically, a few years later that additive was banned because it was carcinogenic so the claims that consumers were getting a better product were clearly not correct.
But even more recently, chemist Vicky Colvin at Rice University showed that, while Fullerenes kill human liver and skin cells, they don't damage DNA and are non-carcinogenic.
Among the agents classed in Group 2B, possibly carcinogenic, are coffee and DDT, both of which have been extensively studied and found not be linked to cancer.
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It also may overcome limitations of photodynamic therapy that has restricted acceptance and surgery that may not be an option if not all carcinogenic tissue can be removed.
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Young women who are satisfied with themselves do not ex-lax themselves thin, or consider an expensive and addictive carcinogenic habit an appropriate price to pay to be beautiful.
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Previously, the WHO had said diesel exhaust was probably carcinogenic.
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Organically grown broccoli and coffee are full of natural substances that are just as carcinogenic as man-made chemicals at high doses and just as safe at low doses.
Reacts with ozone in indoor air to create carcinogenic formaldehyde.
Concerns resurfaced in May when the World Health Organization classified electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" after analyzing the body of scientific research.
Those that use photovoltaic collectors are also challenged on environmental grounds because they are manufactured using highly toxic heavy metals, explosive gases and carcinogenic solvents that present end-of-life disposal hazards.
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In the waning days of the Clinton administration, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an edict that General Electric spend nearly half a billion dollars dredging the Hudson River to remove PCBs, which are supposedly carcinogenic.
In the waning days of the Clinton ad-ministration, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an edict that General Electric spend nearly half a billion dollars dredging the Hudson River to remove PCBs, which are supposedly carcinogenic.
His approach is to approve of studies that appear to offer some glimmer that cell phone energy is carcinogenic and at the same time to find fault with studies that show no evidence of an effect.
"Transport and industrial emissions generate smog that destroys sensitive tissues (in people and animals), as well as producing fine carcinogenic particles that reduce lung function, and are ultimately responsible for many untimely deaths each year, " Manins wrote in the report.
After graduating from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Thanedar founded his own lab, working with clients to remove carcinogenic chemicals from their products and to formulate new ones, such as the black paste football players smear under their eyes.
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