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keep estrogen but call it a disputed example - scientific disputes really do occur sometimes
The [[National Toxicology Program]] (NTP), of the [[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]], classifies carcinogens in two categories: ''Known'', and ''Reasonably anticipated''.<ref name="NTP">National Toxicology Progam: [http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/index.cfm?objectid=03CA6383-9766-1F64-6637241FE0114FE9 Questions & Answers about the RoC].</ref> Since 1978, it has produced a list of carcinogenic material along with federal regulations limiting exposure.<ref name="NTP"/>
The [[National Toxicology Program]] (NTP), of the [[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]], classifies carcinogens in two categories: ''Known'', and ''Reasonably anticipated''.<ref name="NTP">National Toxicology Progam: [http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/index.cfm?objectid=03CA6383-9766-1F64-6637241FE0114FE9 Questions & Answers about the RoC].</ref> Since 1978, it has produced a list of carcinogenic material along with federal regulations limiting exposure.<ref name="NTP"/>
==Examples==
==Commonplace examples==
The following are common-place examples of carcinogens:
The following are common-place examples of carcinogens:
*[[Asbestos]]
*[[Asbestos]]
*[[Chloroform]]
*[[Chloroform]]
*Diesel exhaust
*Diesel exhaust
*Gasoline
*Gasoline
*Nickel<ref>Kasprzak KS, Sunderman FW Jr, Salnikow K. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=14643413&dopt=Abstract Nickel carcinogenesis]</ref>
*Nickel<ref>Kasprzak KS, Sunderman FW Jr, Salnikow K. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=14643413&dopt=Abstract Nickel carcinogenesis]</ref>
*[[Tobacco]] products
*[[Tobacco]] products
*[[X-Radiation]]
*[[X-Radiation]]
===Disputed examples===
*[[Estrogen]]<ref>[http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1155/context/archive Feds label estrogen carcinogen]</ref>
==References==
==References==