Household Use of Solid Fuels and High-Temperature Frying (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789283212959)

This volume provides a first-time evaluation of the carcinogenicity of household solid fuel combustion (coal and biomass) and of high-temperature frying. About half of the world's population, mostly in low-resource and medium-resource countries, use solid fuels for cooking or heating, often in poorly ventilated spaces. In this volume, indoor emissions from household combustion of coal, and from household combustion of biomass fuel, as well as stir-frying, deep-frying, and pan-frying--all involving heating cooking oil to high temperatures--were evaluated by an IARC Monographs Working Group, reviewing epidemiological evidence, animal bioassays, and mechanistic and other relevant data to reach conclusions as to their carcinogenic hazard to humans.

Author: The International Agency for Research on
ISBN-10: 9283212959
ISBN-13: 9789283212959
Publisher: World Health Organization
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2010
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.70w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2010 pg. 75