IARC revised its carcinogenicity evaluations website (Volumes 1-123)

 

6 November, 2018.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization, revised its carcinogenicity evaluations website on November 2.
URL: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/index.php

This revision is to notify the publication of summary of the evaluations on "IARC Monographs Vol.123: some nitrobenzenes and other industrial chemicals". The agents included are ortho-phenylenediamine and its dihydrochloride salt, 2-chloronitrobenzene, 4-chloronitrobenzene, 1,4-dichloro-2-nitrobenzene, 2,4-dichloro-1-nitrobenzene, 2-amino-4-chlorophenol, para-nitroanisole, and N,N-dimethylacetamide.
All of the agents were classified as "possibly carcinogenic to humans"(Group 2B).

There is no change in the carcinogenicity categories for EMFs.