Sentences with phrase «chemical as a carcinogen»

But the long - term risks are not well known, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency has said there is not enough evidence to classify the chemical as a carcinogen.

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Last year, the World Health Organization classified glyphosate as a «probable» carcinogen, resulting in renewed focus on the potential health risks of the chemical in food.

According to California's regulations under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (commonly referred to as «Prop 65», which is significantly stricter than the FDA on many levels), there is a «Safe Harbor» list of two classes of chemicals: those that cause reproductive toxicity and those that are considered carcinogens.

It's just as effective as conventional brands, without the use of harsh chemicals, toxins, fillers, carcinogens, preservatives or GMO ingredients.

One of the most popular methods of quitting smoking today is vaping; using an e-cigarette or «vape», your teen can still get some nicotine from the ejuice, but without the added nasty chemicals found in tobacco, such as carbon monoxide, tar, and various other carcinogens.

No need to worry about suspected carcinogens (sulfates, parabens, formaldehyde, synthetic fragrances and colorants and more) or pesticide and herbicide residues, as well as contamination from chemical fertilizers.

The Green Moms asked questions about the safety of the tens of thousands of untested, unregulated chemicals used in personal care products such as shampoos and household cleaners, and the presence of small amounts of probable carcinogens such as 1,4 dioxane and formaldehyde in products such as baby wash.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

LaDou points out that many of the chemicals present in the factories, such as arsenic and benzene, are known carcinogens.

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered novel compounds produced by certain types of chemical reactions — such as those found in vehicle exhaust or grilling meat — that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their parent compounds which are known carcinogens.

The European Chemicals Agency declared last week that the chemical should not be classified as a carcinogen.

15, No. 4), known carcinogens such as x-rays, gamma rays and UV rays have energies greater than 480 kilojoules per mole (kJ / mole), which is enough to break chemical bonds.

But as the Royal Society of Chemistry emphasised, we are all in our daily lives surrounded by many chemicals that occur naturally and which are potential carcinogens.

It probably smells like something in nature such as apple or rose or jasmine, but it's likely made from the same old nasty chemical brew, complete with carcinogens, xenohormones and allergens.

Studies even suggest that sprouts from cruciferous vegetables provide greater chemoprevention than mature vegetables.30 While vegetables and their defensive chemicals may stimulate our cancer - fighting machinery through cellular stress, their ability to disarm carcinogens before they strike may be just as important.

As predicted, when smokers consume a solution containing watercress extract (watercress is a member of the Brassicaceae vegetable family), it blocks the breakdown and absorption of several of these cancerous chemicals, and instead discards them in the urine.47 When these smokers stop consuming the watercress, their urinary levels of the chemicals drop, suggesting the carcinogens are no longer being discarded and instead metabolized within the body.

Chemical Additives and Preservatives Another no - brainer; toxic chemicals, such as sulfites, nitrates, BHA (probable carcinogen), maltodextrin, and carrageenan have no business in our food supply.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

A diet high in animal protein seems to increase the risk as well, possibly due to blood components in meat, carcinogens created by cooking muscle, chemicals in processed meat, pro-inflammatory arachidonic acid and iron, harmful bacteria causing inflammation, or even the antibiotics in meat interfering with gut flora.

This means that exposures to the numerous chemicals in food and the environment, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals and carcinogens, could be causing levels of damage that would not occur if the body were able to detoxify them.»

Recent research suggests you may want to do the latter, as scented laundry detergents, fabric softeners and dryer sheets contain hazardous chemicals, some of them known carcinogens -LSB-...]

Many environmental contaminants have a synergistic effect as well; non-carcinogenic chemicals are known to turn to cancer - promoting carcinogens when combined.

As an eco-beauty expert, Ava has spoken out extensively about the dangers of carcinogens and toxic chemicals and has been featured in Cosmo, Glamour, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue.

The cause of primary liver cancer may be related to environmental factors, such as exposure to cancer - causing chemicals (carcinogens).

Vaccines contain dangerous carcinogens and disease causing chemicals, such as mercury and formaldehyde.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named some of these chemicals as potential carcinogens.

This bill would require manufacturers selling cosmetic products in California to provide the state Department of Health Services with a list of their products and to identify products that contain chemicals identified as carcinogens or reproductive toxins.

«UOG operations release large amounts of reproductive, immunological, and neurological toxicants, carcinogens as well as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) into the environment that may negatively affect human health.»