Arsenic and inorganic arsenic compounds (IARC Monographs Vol. 100C)
secondary literature · 2012
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SUMMARY
The authoritative modern evaluation cited for the disconfirmation: the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies arsenic and inorganic arsenic compounds as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), the highest-certainty category (IARC Monographs Vol. 100C, 2012, confirming earlier evaluations). Arsenic is a cumulative metabolic poison whose chronic ingestion causes skin lesions, neuropathy, organ damage, and cancers of the skin, lung, and bladder. It grounds the case's central point that the arsenic taken daily for figure and complexion was a poison and a carcinogen, not a safe beauty aid.
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The authoritative modern evaluation cited for the disconfirmation: the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies arsenic and inorganic arsenic compounds as carcinogenic to humans, Group 1, the highest certainty category (IARC Monographs Volume 100C, 2012, confirming earlier evaluations). Arsenic is a cumulative metabolic poison whose chronic ingestion causes skin lesions, neuropathy, organ damage, and cancers of the skin, lung, and bladder. It grounds the case’s central point: the arsenic taken daily for figure and complexion was a poison and a carcinogen, not a safe beauty or slimming aid.