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Thus, finding that a compound is toxic or carcinogenic at high dose to laboratory rats, but not to mice or rabbits, would weaken the argument that humans might be affected (for more information on animal testing, see the ACSH publications "Of Mice and Mandates" and America's War on "Carcinogens").
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America's War on "Carcinogens": Reassessing the Use of Animal Tests Predict Human Cancer Risk
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Carcinogens are things that can cause cancer, but that label doesn't mean that they will or that they pose a risk to anyone exposed to them in any amount at any time.
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Carcinogens are things that can cause cancer, but that label doesn't mean that they will or that they pose a risk to anyone exposed to them in any amount at any time.
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Carcinogens are things that can cause cancer, but that label doesn't mean that they will or that they pose a risk to anyone exposed to them in any amount at any time.
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Carcinogens are things that can cause cancer, but that label doesn't mean that they will or that they pose a risk to anyone exposed to them in any amount at any time.
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Lead is listed as a substance reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen in the Eleventh Report on Carcinogens, published by the National Toxicology Program, because exposure to lead has been associated with lung, stomach, and bladder cancer.
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Carcinogens, Ames suggested, had a common, distinctive functional property: they altered genes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Carcinogens, Ames suggested, had a common, distinctive functional property: they altered genes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The result is a ban of 1,100 ingredients including any and all CMRs -- Carcinogens, Mutagens or Reproductive toxins.
Stephanie Soechtig: The Story Behind Cosmetics Stephanie Soechtig 2010
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