Contaminated paracetamol unlikely to cause cancer: Medicines authority

Paracetamol will not give you cancer, the Netherlands' medicines evaluation board CBG said after a report by Zembla and NRC that a large batch of paracetamol pills were contaminated with potentially carcinogenic substance para-chloroaniline (PCA). The concentrations of PCA that the researchers found were all well below the legal limit and "the safety of the use of paracetamol is not compromised," CBG said in a statement.Submitted by Janene Pieters on Saturday, 11 July 2020 - 10:40 https://nltimes.nl/2020/07/11/contaminated-paracetamol-unlikely-cause-cancer-medicines-authority