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Make-up, chocolates, deodorant and sand: two weeks in cancer scares

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29 October 2015

9:00 AM

29 October 2015

9:00 AM

Killer facts

The World Health Organisation added processed meats to its list of ‘known’ carcinogens. A few of the other things which have been claimed to be linked to cancer in the past fortnight:
— Make-up in Halloween outfits (blamed by a laser surgery centre in New York)
— Chocolate (blamed by a colorectal surgeon at St George’s Hospital, Tooting)
— Deodorants (tabloid article — no source given)
— Hormone-replacement therapy (tabloid article — no source given)
— ‘Roundup’ herbicide (named in US lawsuit)
— Sand used in fracking, which is to say, sand (Friends of the Earth)
— Nail polish (tabloid article — no source given)
— Shampoo...







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