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...would like to demonstrate that aflatoxin can cause the p53 mutation," he said. "This would be direct proof that aflatoxin is a carcinogen...
Least-Sparkling Water It wasn't Perrier's year. First, lab tests found traces of benzene, a potential carcinogen, in samples of the green-bottled bubbly. Then the French government forced Perrier to drop the words naturally carbonated from its European labels. ("Naturally" had earlier been deemed a no-no in the U.S.) Evian has now supplanted Perrier as America's top-selling imported bottled water...
Several Administration officials are also skeptical about the EPA's conclusions. Last June draft language classifying ELF fields as a "probable carcinogen" was deleted from an earlier version of the EPA report after it was reviewed by the White House. At the time, the EPA denied that it was pressured into dropping the offending words...
...Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control have a well-earned reputation for relentlessly tracking down the causes of such mysterious ailments as Legionnaires' disease. But the agency's record is in danger of being blemished by a bitter controversy over Agent Orange, a defoliant containing dioxin, a suspected carcinogen...
Last week Perrier announced that it was recalling its product worldwide, having already reclaimed 72 million bottles from stores and restaurants in North America. Reason: traces of benzene, a known carcinogen, had been found in the water, first in the U.S., then at the very plant where the water is bottled in Vergeze, France. Yuppies shuddered, bartenders flinched, lime futures tumbled and normally well-hydrated joggers faced desiccation rather than switch to Schweppes. To the true believers, those who used it to spray their camellias or rinse their lingerie or boil fusilli or water their Scotch, there could...