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WHO says insecticide lindane causes cancer

The insecticide lindane causes cancer in humans, says the World Health Organization after conducting a review.

A specialist panel found sufficient evidence to link the chemical, already banned in the EU and the US, to a cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Lindane is still used in some developing countries.

And it is an ingredient in some head lice and scabies treatments used in some countries, including China, India, the US and Canada.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) panel also concluded that another insecticide, called DDT, was "probably carcinogenic to humans".

And it classified a third insecticide called 2,4-D as possibly carcinogenic to humans.

Read full article: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33236293

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