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Carcinogen
Domain: Health and safety at work => Risk factors
Grammatical category: 
Noun
Grammar notes: 
Countable
Definition: 
Any agent, chemical, physical or biological, that can act on living tissue in such a way as to cause cancer.
Definition source: 
Heriot Watt University - School of Life Science (http://www.bio.hw.ac.uk/edintox/glossall.htm)
European legislation: 
Directives 89/391/EEC, 90/394/EEC
British legislation: 
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1994
Contained in: 
Agent
It: 
= Agente cancerogeno
Fr: 
= Agent cancĂ©rogène
De: 
= Karzinogen
 
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