世卫组织属下的国际癌症研究署(IARC)日前宣布,将柴油废气的致癌危害等级,由可能致癌提升到确定致癌。这是世界各地的专家经过一星期的讨论,评估了最新的科学证据后得出一致的结论。该工作小组的主席波堤尔指出,鉴于柴油燃烧后释放出的含硫悬浮颗粒对身体伤害很大,全球应致力减少人类暴露于这种化学混合物之中,民众应尽量避免处在受到柴油废气污染的环境里。世界各地火车、轮船以及各 The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is under the agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), has announced that it has raised the cancer hazard rating of diesel exhausts from being potentially carcinogenic to being carcinogenic. This was a week of discussions among experts from around the world, and they came to a consensus after evaluating the latest scientific evidence. The chairman of the working group, Poitier, pointed out that given that the sulfur-laden suspended particles emitted from the combustion of diesel are harmful to the body, the world should strive to reduce human exposure to this chemical mixture. The public should try their best to avoid being exposed to diesel exhaust. In a polluted environment. Trains, ships and ships around the world