Recommendations on Priorities for IARC Monographs Include Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Nanomaterials

An Advisory Group of 29 scientists from 18 countries met on March 25-27, 2019, to recommend priorities for the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs program during 2020-2024.  The Advisory Group assessed the response to a public call for nominations and considered more than 170 unique candidate agents, including the recommended priorities remaining from a similar Advisory Group meeting convened in 2014.  The Advisory Group deliberated on all nominated agents both by evidence stream and by type of agent to inform development of priority recommendations.  The Advisory Group recommended a broad range of agents with high, medium, or low priority for evaluation.  The Advisory Group assigned priority on the basis of evidence of human exposure and the extent of available evidence for evaluating carcinogenicity.  Agents without evidence of human exposure or evidence for evaluating carcinogenicity were not recommended for further…

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