Report on Carcinogens

Eifth Annual Report on Carcinogens, Summary, National Toxicology Program, Research Triangle Park, N.C., 1989, pp. 199—201. 

Trichlorethylene has been nominated for listing in the National Toxicology Program (NTP) 9th Report on Carcinogens. Evaluation of this substance by the NTP review committees is ongoing (NTP 1997)... 

NTP. 1994. Seventh annual report on carcinogens. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Public Health Service. 

Benzidine is a known carcinogen and should be handled with extreme caution (Fourth Annual Report on Carcinogens NTP 85-002, 1985, p. 37). The solid and its vapors may be rapidly absorbed through skin. Protective clothing and the use of a fume hood are... 

Annual Report on Carcinogens National Toxicology Program, 2000... 

Report on Carcinogens Ninth Annual Report. (2000) Department of Health and Human, Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Research Triangle Park, North, Carolina. 

There are no reports on carcinogenicity of PNB in humans. However, PNB was used as an intermediate in the preparation of 4-amino-biphenyl, a recognized human bladder carcinogen, and bladder tumors found in men exposed to 4-aminobiphenyl may have been partially due to PNB. ... 

For a critical appraisal of long-term and short-term assays, see, for example, WHO (1985a, 1985b) and Montesano et al. (1986). For discussions of their use in characterizing the cancer risk of POM, see, for example, in addition to the IARC Reports (1983,1987, 1989) and the U.S. DHHS 8th Report on Carcinogens, Summary (U.S. DHHS, 1998), articles by Lewtas (1993a, 1993b, 1994), Nielsen et al. (1996), and Collins et al. (1998) and references therein. 

The chemical should not contain any chemicals that are a carcinogen or that are known to cause reproductive toxicity. Carcinogens are defined as those chemicals listed in the current edition of the Annual Report on Carcinogens, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Toxicology Program. Chemicals known to cause reproductive toxicity, for example, are defined as those hsted by the state of California under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Cah-fomia Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 2, Subdivision 1, Chapter 3, Sections 1200, et seq.)... 

Department of Health and Human Services (1999) Report on Carcinogens, 8th Ed., Research Triangle Park, National Toxicology Program, pp. 80-81 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1999) List ofMAK and BAT Values 1999 (Report No. 35), Weinheim, Wiley-VCH, pp. 41, 113... 

National Toxicology Program (1991) Report on Carcinogens Background Documentfor 2,3-Di-bromo-1-propanol. Research Triangle Park... 

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