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IARC Classifies Automotive Gasoline as Carcinogenic to Humans

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)—a branch of the World Health Organization mandated to investigate potential causes of cancer—conducts its own hazard evaluations of suspected carcinogens and publishes...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

IARC Releases Its Priority Evaluation List for 2025-2029

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released its 2025-2029 Priority List for evaluation in April of this year, see Advisory Group Recommendations on Priorities for the IARC Monographs, The Lancet Oncology...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

IARC Plans Evaluation of Automotive Gasoline and Oxygenated Additives in Early 2025

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that it will be evaluating “automotive gasoline and some oxygenated additives” between February and March 2025 per IARC Monographs – Volume 138.  The additives...more

Hissey, Mulderig & Friend, PLLC

Bayer, Monsanto Face 54,000 Roundup Lawsuits Over Lymphoma, Cancer Claims

Bayer and Monsanto are currently facing about 54,000 lawsuits filed by consumers who were exposed to the weedkiller Roundup (glyphosate), according to recent court documents....more

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Defendants Can Leverage IARC Statement on Two PFAS Compounds, PFOA AND PFOS

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PFAS defendants can use the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC’s) recent statement on the carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in support of causation and...more

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Legal Considerations for WHO’s ‘Possibly Carcinogenic’ Aspartame Classification

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On July 14, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a summary of two findings regarding aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in many consumer products. One finding categorized aspartame as “possibly...more

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WHO's Cancer Research Agency to Say Aspartame Sweetener a Possible Carcinogen

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On June 29, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the widely used artificial sweetener, aspartame, is set to be declared as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer...more

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EPA versus the State of California: An Important Glyphosate Update

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Glyphosate is a widely used herbicide perhaps best known for being the active ingredient in the blockbuster weed killer Roundup®.  As many readers are probably aware, Roundup® is currently the subject of both state and...more

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$1 billion+ may seem like a lot of money. It still can’t resolve many questions.

Although lawsuits can result in needed financial support and welcome recognition of harms suffered by patients seeking medical services, the civil justice system has its limits. They showed in cases in the news in which...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Monsanto verdict reduced but case highlights jury realities in products cases

Recently, a jury in San Francisco was asked to determine whether “Roundup,” the world’s most popular and widely used herbicide, causes cancer - a question debated in hundreds of studies by oncologists, clinicians, chemists...more

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Court Holds International Cancer Agency Is Not A Private Corporation

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More than a half century ago, the World Health Assembly established the International Agency for Research on Cancer as the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization. Although headquartered in Lyon, France,...more

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Fumes, Ultraviolet Radiation from Welding Named Carcinogens by IARC

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Welding fumes and ultraviolet radiation from welding have recently been classified as Group 1 carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization’s specialized cancer agency....more

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Wrap-Up of Federal and State Chemical Regulatory Developments April 2015

EAB Reverses Epic Penalty In Elementis Case, But Affirms EPA's "Continuing" TSCA Section 8(e) Interpretation: On March 13, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) reversed the...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

IARC Announces Cancer Classification for Glyphosate and Other Pesticides

On March 20, 2015, the United Nations World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced it had completed evaluations assessing the carcinogenicity of five organophosphate pesticides....more

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