What is the current IARC classification for carbon black?
In 1995, and more recently in February 2006, an IARC panel of experts conducted a comprehensive review of carbon black. They concluded that there was “sufficient evidence” of carcinogenicity of carbon black in laboratory animals (based on two inhalation studies in laboratory rats), but that there was “inadequate evidence” of carcinogenicity in humans. IARC’s overall classification placed carbon black in IARC’s Group 2B as a “possible human carcinogen.
In 1995, and more recently in February 2006, an IARC panel of experts conducted a comprehensive review of carbon black. They concluded that there was “sufficient evidence” of carcinogenicity of carbon black in laboratory animals (based on two inhalation studies in laboratory rats), but that there was “inadequate evidence” of carcinogenicity in humans.
