IARC rulings are, by and large, useless for public policy, because they only address the existence of a risk and not the magnitude. Bacon is a proven human carcinogen but the risk increase is very small so policy has barely shifted due to the ruling
I think one follows the other. The fear comes from the information conveyed - the idea that you'll get cancer if you're exposed to the 2a substance - but the reality is that there is little information to be gleaned from this fact and thus little fear
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You are not a farmer or a mother working in a viticultural region.Then you might find IARC classification "scarey". You are a student at University of Wollongong who writes for ACSH and Genetic literacy project both US pesticide industry funded websites
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