The World Health Organization has issued a statement after receiving a number of queries, expressions of concern and requests for clarification following the publication of a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) relating to processed meat and colorectal cancer. The report placed bacon, ham and sausages in the same category of cancer risk as tobacco, asbestos, arsenic and alcohol.
Gregory Härtl, a spokesman for WHO, told The Irish Times the original message from the report was “misinterpreted.”