Carcinogenicity Evaluations and Ongoing Studies : The Iarc Databases

By Vainio, Harri

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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Carcinogenicity Evaluations and Ongoing Studies : The Iarc Databases
Author:	Vainio, Harri
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, United Nations., United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Disarmament Documents
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Publisher:	United Nations- Office for Disarmament Affairs (Unoda)


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Introduction: Chemicals, Carcinogens, and Hazards to Humans Estimates vary as to the number of chemicals that are produced In significant amounts. In 1980, the European Core lnvcntory IECDIN I listed about 34MX)chemical wbstances helicved to be on the European community market (I). Later, Shulze and Miicke (2) estimated that there were about 100,000 chemicals on the market within the European Community. Recently, it has been estimated on the basis of the U.S. Toxic Substance Control Act inventory that people in the United States are exposed to about 66,000 chemical substances (S), and some 300 to 700 new industrial chemicals are introduced annually into economic use (4). The fact that even minimal toxicity dataare available for only a minority of these chemicals is due to the rapid development of new industrial activities during a period in which health problems related to chemicals received little attention. Several thousand chemicals on the market have been tested to some extent for carcinogenicity in long-term animal studies;.