IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risks to Humans Series 95

Household Use of Solid Fuels and High Temperature Frying

Paperback
August 2010
9789283212959
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  • Publisher
    World Health Organization
  • Published
    24th August 2010
  • ISBN 9789283212959
  • Language English
  • Pages 400 pp.
  • Size 6.75" x 9.5"
$66.00

This volume provides a first-time evaluation of the carcinogenicity of household solid fuel combustion (coal and biomass) and of high-temperature frying. About half of the world's population, mostly in low-resource and medium-resource countries, use solid fuels for cooking or heating, often in poorly ventilated spaces. In this volume, indoor emissions from household combustion of coal, and from household combustion of biomass fuel, as well as stir-frying, deep-frying, and pan-frying--all involving heating cooking oil to high temperatures--were evaluated by an IARC Monographs Working Group, reviewing epidemiological evidence, animal bioassays, and mechanistic and other relevant data to reach conclusions as to their carcinogenic hazard to humans.

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