Carcinogen

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No more colorful tattoos! Because of suspicions that they are carcinogenic, the EC prohibits some of the inks that are used in the tattoo parlours. The latest amendments to the regulation that Brussels has made are already a fact and should come into force in the coming months. Green and blue colors are now  banned in some cosmetic products for the same reason.

The Romanian Presidency at the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement regarding the reduction of the exposure of workers to carcinogens and mutagens, informs the Council of European Union on Tuesday.

Earlier today, a California Superior Court judge issued a ruling that's bound to stress out lots of java drinkers—even if it probably shouldn't. Companies like Starbucks will have to tell customers that their coffee can potentially cause cancer.

Checks for asbestos, which is considered carcinogenic material by the World Health Organization, is only obligatory in seven of the Istanbul districts ahead of demolition works, experts have warned.

Hundreds of thousands Chinese-made carcinogenic toys and frames were seized by custom enforcement officers at Istanbul’s Ambarlı Harbor on Dec. 4, daily Habertürk has reported. 

A new method capable of mapping out the damage caused to DNA by cigarette smoking for the first time has been developed by Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar, the 2015 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and his team from the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine. 

The Ankara Municipality has taken wide measures against potential diffusion of earth flax to the air as part of the dismantling work for a decades-old factory in central Ankara, which is certified of bearing 350 tons of the carcinogenic material inside its building. 

People living within a 2-kilometer radius of a recycling factory in Aspropyrgos that caught fire last year have a 13 percent increased risk of developing cancer, according to the coordinator of CROME-LIFE, the Cross-Mediterranean Environment and Health Network, whose findings were presented on Tuesday in Athens.

Everybody knows that smoking is bad for you.  After all, look at the statistics.  According to the Center for Disease Control, it is responsible for 87% of lung cancer cases and one out of three cancer cases overall, resulting in circa 6 million deaths a year worldwide.