It tells us what pest management tools are being developed at the research level. This may include information from IR-4 projects, IPM research, land grant institutions, commodity or food processors or independent researchers. The pipeline will also identify pesticides involved in pre-registration activities at EPA including tolerance petitions, tolerance proposals and acceptances, Section 18 registrations, EUP's and applications for registrations. Carcinogens also have been found in 49 percent of the prescription drugs that have been tested. Although Ames developed the test for potential carcinogens, he is now concerned that results from cancer tests that apply high doses to animals are misleading and that cancer scare stories cause people to avoid items ranging from apples to soft drinks.
Unbalanced diets account for about one-third of cancer cases.
Reproductive hormones contribute to as much as 20 percent of all cancer. Lack of exercise, obesity and alcohol intake influence hormone levels and increase risk. Chronic infections cause about nine percent of cancer cases, mostly in developing countries. Cancer is also due in part to normal aging. The study rebuts some common misconceptions.