this article provides a good rebuttal to the IARC http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2015/03/20/march-madness-from-the-united-nations/ http://www.forbes.c

this article provides a good rebuttal to the IARC http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2015/03/20/march-madness-from-the-united-nations/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2015/03/20/march-mad... tl;dr: the IARC report bases its conclusion on the potential hazard rather than the actual risk. Regulatory agencies like Germany's BfR which review a lot more data have concluded that there is no "carcinogenic or mutagenic properties"