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08/23/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Styrene, a common ingredient in many plastic items, now deemed to be “probably carcinogenic” by WHO

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has now upgraded the cancer-causing status of the common plastic ingredient styrene. The move came in response to the results of a comprehensive study carried out by researchers from Aarhus University, along with new animal evidence. More than 70,000 people were included in the […]

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