[fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”underline solid” sep_color=”#000000″ margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer set to label red and processed meats as cancer-causing agents[/title][fusion_text]Friday, October 23rd 2015
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reportedly will label red and processed meats as cancer-causing agents in a report to be released on Monday. The report will touch on the outcome of an IARC meeting on the subject, and is expected to say that red and processed meats pose cancer risks to consumers. IARC confirmed in a statement on its website that it is issuing a report at noon Eastern time on Monday and that there had been “random reports in the British press postulating on the outcome on the carcinogenicity of red meat and processed meat.” It said the reports appeared, although “no embargoed material was shared with any news outlet, in Britain or elsewhere.” The agency said the report will be released along with a news story in The Lancet Oncology. If the report does indeed label red and processed meats as carcinogens, it wouldn’t be the first time an IARC ruling had an impact on agriculture. In March, the panel ruled that glyphosate, one of the most widely-used herbicides in agriculture, was “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
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