The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) has refused to recommend that drycleaning workers who develop oesophageal or cervical cancer should qualify for industrial injuries benefit. An IIAC position paper concludes: “After reviewing the evidence, the council concluded that while there may be some evidence of an increased risk in certain sub-groups of workers, overall there was insufficient evidence to recommend changes to the list of prescribed diseases for which people can claim Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit.” A 1997 paper in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine found higher rates of these cancers and cancer of the larynx in drycleaning workers.

Work as a dry cleaner and cancers of the oesophagus and cervix, IIAC position paper 32,.