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José - Luis Gutiérrez Villanue

🔬 How do experts classify cancer risks?

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) evaluates substances to determine their carcinogenic potential.

Their methodology shapes public health policies and regulations worldwide.

If you work in environmental health, air quality, or risk assessment, this is critical knowledge.

📖 Learn how IARC assesses carcinogenic hazards:

🔗 monographs.iarc.who.int/iarc-m

IARC cancer research
#CancerResearch#PublicHealth#Toxicology
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Earthworm

We need to be critical with toxicological safety levels.

Apart from the ovious political fight and influence by lobbies, there are way too few large-scale toxicological studies that assess multiple toxics, interactions with lifestyle, toxicity of degradation products and long-term effects on human health (reproductive health, endocrine disruptors, gut microbiome etc...) and the environment (yeah, complex topic, I know. But maybe a little bit of cautionary principle?).

We are filling ourselves with toxic shit just because some funds manager can report higher benefits to the already obscenely rich shareholders.

[that said, it's obviously an embarrassment for the authors of the study, but shit happens. I fully agree with their take that the overall conclusions remain: "an order of magnitude lower" sounds like "bah, in reality that's nothing", but the plastic kitchen utensils are by far the only source of toxic contamintants. And the highlighting of the recycling pathway for the pollution of household products is correct. Since we are luckily starting to recycle more stuff, we have to face this problem. And yes, there is also the topic of toxic shit in packaging of foodstuff: unwrappedproject.org/recycled-]

@troublewithwords @matthewtoad43
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UNWRAPPEDRecycled Content in Food Packaging & Toxic Chemical Exposure — UNWRAPPED
#Toxicology#PlasticPollution#PFAS
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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* 75+ trade groups against EPA findings
* Trump2 EPA appointee David Dunlap: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Du
* dir. environmental regulatory affairs, Koch Industries
* tried to persuade EPA formaldehyde doesn’t cause leukemia
* Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific made formaldehyde, products that emit it (since sold chem biz to Bakelite Synthetics)
* at EPA Dunlap had authority over division working on toxicity report

/1 * 75+ trade groups against EPA findings * Trump2 EPA appointee David Dunlap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dunlap_(lobbyist) * dir. environmental regulatory affairs, Koch Industries * tried to persuade EPA formaldehyde doesn’t cause leukemia * Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific made formaldehyde, products that emit it (since sold chem biz to Bakelite Synthetics) * at EPA Dunlap had authority over division working on toxicity report #toxicology #formaldehyde #OHS #EnvironmentalHealth #pollutants #cancer #KochIndustries
#toxicology#formaldehyde#OHS
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Air Pollutant. Little Done to Curb the Risk
propublica.org/article/formald

* WHO: formaldehyde = carcinogen
* EPA: 320M Americans live in areas where lifetime cancer risk from outdoor exposure to formaldehyde 10x higher EPA limit
* Trump vowed to roll back regs he views as anti-business
* typical home has formaldehyde level >3x higher than EPA limit
...

ProPublicaFormaldehyde Increases Your Cancer Risk No Matter Where you Live
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#toxicology#formaldehyde#OHS
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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥

there are some places left for the second @elixir_europe Toxicology Community INTOXICOM workshop in #Basel in ~two weeks, with the preparatory webinar tomorrow.

Topics: #toxicology, #chemistry, #FAIR, FAIR Cookbook, training material (TeSS), DS-Wizard templates, and exchanging metadata with/from ELIXIR and toxicology projects.

aanmelder.nl/intoxicom-ws-2/wi

www.aanmelder.nlINTOXICOM-WS-2 - WP-2 features WS-2
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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥

the @elixir_europe Toxicology Community organizes its second INTOXICOM workshop next month: aanmelder.nl/intoxicom-ws-2/wi

The overall topic will be research output management, and we focus on more than FAIR data, but also on training material, FAIR Cookbook recipes, wizards, and actual reuse of metadata to support toxicological research

www.aanmelder.nlINTOXICOM-WS-2 - WP-2 features WS-2
#fair#toxicology#safety
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