Sentences with phrase «potent human carcinogen»

It is a potent human carcinogen and a neurotoxin shown to permanently reduce children's IQ.

The first leg of the dioxin - based argument for a vegetarian or vegan diet — that dioxins are potent human carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, reproductive disruptors, and immune disruptors — has been shown above to be either false or irrelevant at the level of dioxins currently consumed in the US.

Dioxins have not been shown to be potent human carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, reproductive inhibitors or immune toxicants; dioxins do not occur primarily in animal foods, and in some cases, as in Greece, occur primarily in plant foods; and intake is not the only or even primary determinant of toxicity.

Although the first tenet of the dioxin - based argument for vegetarianism, that dioxins are potent human carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, reproductive disruptors, and immune disruptors appears to be false or irrelevant to humans at the levels at which they are exposed, it is still sensible for us to err on the side of caution and, ceteris paribus (all things being equal), opt for a lower dioxin intake over a higher one.

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Among these, Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) causes extensive DNA damage and is the most potent carcinogen ever tested, especially affecting liver and lungs, also causing birth defects, immune - toxicity and even death in farm animals and humans.