{"id":848,"date":"2025-06-15T03:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2025-06-15T03:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:45:14","slug":"who-declares-talc-probably-carcinogenic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/who-declares-talc-probably-carcinogenic\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO declares talc \u2018probably carcinogenic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to AFP on the 6th, the World Health Organization\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified talc as a \u201cpossibly carcinogenic\u201d substance to humans in an evaluation study published in The Lancet Oncology.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that IARC based this conclusion on \u201climited evidence\u201d that talc may cause human ovarian cancer, \u201csufficient evidence\u201d that talc is associated with cancer in rats, and \u201cstrong mechanistic evidence\u201d that talc shows signs of carcinogenicity in human cells. Some experts warned not to misunderstand this result as \u201cconclusive evidence\u201d because the relevant studies are observational and cannot prove the causal relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Talc is a naturally occurring mineral that is mined in many parts of the world and is often used to make baby powder. The IARC report shows that most people are exposed to talc through baby powder or cosmetics, but the most serious such exposure occurs during mineral mining, processing or product manufacturing. Johnson &amp; Johnson in the United States is facing multiple lawsuits for its talc products that may cause cancer.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-850\" title=\"2016090222082563338\" src=\"https:\/\/trahor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2016090222082563338.jpg\" alt=\"2016090222082563338\" width=\"581\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trahor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2016090222082563338.jpg 581w, https:\/\/trahor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2016090222082563338-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, earlier this month, the U.S. District Court in New Jersey dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Johnson &amp; Johnson subsidiary against a scientist in a case involving \u201ctalc carcinogenicity research.\u201d The scientist\u2019s research published in 2020 showed that human contact with asbestos-contaminated talc products can cause tumors, while Johnson &amp; Johnson insisted that its talc products were safe and did not cause cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to AFP on the 6th, the World Health Organization\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified talc as a \u201cpossibly carcinogenic\u201d substance to humans in an evaluation study published in The Lancet Oncology. The report said that IARC based this conclusion on \u201climited evidence\u201d that talc may cause human ovarian cancer, \u201csufficient evidence\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"WHO declares talc \u2018probably carcinogenic\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/who-declares-talc-probably-carcinogenic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WHO declares talc \u2018probably carcinogenic\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,1,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-globalization","category-news","category-trade","category-trend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trahor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}