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Household Use of Solid Fuels and High-temperature Frying

IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, No. 95

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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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This publication represents the views and expert opinions of an IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, which met in Lyon, 10–17 October 2006

Lyon, France - 2010

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In 1969, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) initiated a programme on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risk of chemicals to humans involving the production of critically evaluated monographs on individual chemicals. The programme was subsequently expanded to include evaluations of carcinogenic risks associated with exposures to complex mixtures, lifestyle factors and biological and physical agents, as well as those in specific occupations. The objective of the programme is to elaborate and publish in the form of monographs critical reviews of data on carcinogenicity for agents to which humans are known to be exposed and on specific exposure situations; to evaluate these data in terms of human risk with the help of international working groups of experts in chemical carcinogenesis and related fields; and to indicate where additional research efforts are needed. The lists of IARC evaluations are regularly updated and are available on the Internet at http://monographs.iarc.fr/.

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IARC Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

  • Household use of solid fuels and high-temperature frying / IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans (2006: Lyon, France)
  • (IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans; v. 95)
  • 1. Air Pollution, Indoor – analysis 2. Carcinogens 3. Cookery 4. Energy-Generating Resources 5. Fossil Fuels – toxicity 6. Neoplasms – etiology
  • I. IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans II. Series
  • ISBN 978 92 832 1295 9
  • (NLM Classification: W1)
  • ISSN 1017-1606
  • PRINTED IN FRANCE
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Photograph of woman with child cooking over an open fire in Guatemala, courtesy of Nigel Bruce

©International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2010.
Bookshelf ID: NBK385523

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