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Expertengremium bestätigt, dass Duftstoff Krebs verursachen können

ewg.org
Thursday, August 7, 2014
By: Tina Sigurdson, Stabile Law Fellow

Expert Panel Confirms that Fragrance Ingredient Can Cause Cancer

Last month (July 28) a committee convened by the National Academy of Sciences confirmed a federal interagency group’s conclusion that styrene, a chemical building block used to produce a wide variety of everyday products, can cause cancer.

In formal terms, the report issued by the Academy’s National Research Council endorsed the 2011 finding by the National Toxicology Program, a collaboration of scientists from several government agencies, that styrene is “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.” ...