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Some Chemicals Present in Industrial and Consumer Products, Food and Drinking-water

IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans Volume 101

IARC

2012

ISBN-13

978-92-832-1324-6

ISBN-13

978-92-832-0139-7

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This volume of the IARC Monographs provides an assessment of the carcinogenicity of 18 chemicals present in industrial and consumer products or food (natural constituents, contaminants, or flavourings) or occurring as water-chlorination by-products. The compounds evaluated include the widely used plasticizer di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and the food contaminant 4-methylimidazole. In view of the limited agent-specific information available from epidemiological studies, the IARC Monographs Working Group relied mainly on carcinogenicity bioassays, and mechanistic and other relevant data to evaluate the carcinogenic hazards to humans exposed to these agents.