Report on Carcinogens Adds Wood Dust, Other Culprits

Five additions to the federal government’s list of “known human carcinogens” and ten “reasonably anticipated carcinogens” debuted in the tenth

Report on Carcinogens, recently released by the National Institutes of Health. The biennial report was presented to Congress in December by the National Toxicology Program, a branch of the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Although the recognition of steroidal estrogens (used in hormone replacement therapy) as known carcinogens has received significant media attention, a number of other additions to the list concern members of the building community.