WHO re-classifies Agent Orange herbicide as ‘carcinogenic’

This entry was posted in News and tagged WHO on 30 June 2015 by Bjorn Becker

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified the common herbicide 2.4-Dichlorophenoxyacet acid as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”.

Read EurActiv France report here.

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