Successive governments criticised for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce risk in the decade since cancer link found

Bacon and ham sold in the UK should carry cigarette-style labels warning that chemicals in them cause bowel cancer, scientists say.

Their demand comes as they criticise successive British governments for doing “virtually nothing” to reduce the risk from nitrites in the decade since they were found to definitely cause cancer.

Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    A bunch of the stuff I buy has CA cancer warnings on it. When you start putting the warnings on common things, it makes the warnings meaningless…

    Do any of the things I buy have a notable chance to cause caner? I have no fucking clue, because everything causes cancer in California.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      That’s something I’ve noticed too. There’s not really any information about what parts of something to avoid or what the risk is or how you’d come into contact with it, but I remember seeing it everywhere when I lived there too, and I was like

      “Everything in California including California is known to the state of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm.”

      I’m not saying it shouldn’t be there at all, but at least wish it was a bit more like Material Safety Data Sheets that gives a bit more understanding to what you’re getting into by interacting with various things.