50 years of the IARC Monographs

The IARC Monographs programme is celebrating its 50th anniversary between December 2021 and December 2022. The first IARC Monographs meeting took place on 13–17 December 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland, and the results were published with the distinctive orange cover as Volume 1 of the IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Man in 1972.

To mark this anniversary, IARC personnel have created a special 50th anniversary logo through an in-house competition. This new logo will appear on the covers of IARC Monographs volumes resulting from meetings held, as well as volumes published, during the anniversary year. The logo will also be used on special-edition anniversary merchandise, which will be available for a limited period in 2022.

More information about events celebrating the first 50 years of the IARC Monographs will be published soon.

View the 50th anniversary logo

Read the first issue of the IARC Monographs newsletter