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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Americans love French fries. Every year, on average, we devour 30 pounds of the crispy fried potatoes. But studies are now proving they aren’t good for you. So what about those claims that French fries are causing cancer? Many recent news reports say that French fries are not only bad for you, they’re linked to cancer. The cancer claims are tied to scientific studies of acrylamide, a substance produced when starchy foods, like potatoes, are heated or, in this case, fried. The United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) warns “acrylamide has the potential to cause cancer in...

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) says acrylamide in food potentially increases the risk of developing cancer for consumers in all age groups. The authority has launched a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion about the substance. Acrylamide is a chemical compound that typically forms in starchy food products such as potato crisps, chips, bread, biscuits and coffee, during high-temperature processing (above 150°), including frying, baking and roasting. […] Acrylamide has previously been linked to cancer. In 2002, Swedish researchers found the compound by coincidence and had a strong suspicion that acrylamide was a carcinogenic agent. But EFSA acknowledges...

One week after proposing the removal of trans fats from food, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is targeting another fattening – and potentially harmful – ingredient: acrylamide. Acrylamide is a chemical that forms in many plant-based foods during high-temperature cooking, such as frying or baking. It is often found in French fries, cereals, crackers and many other food products. According to a recent report on the FDA website, stuides have found that high levels of acrylamide can increase the risk of cancer in animals – and many experts believe the risk likely translates to humans as well.

More Videos: http://www.CleanTV.com Just when you thought it was safe to grab some munchies in the cupboard, a new study warns of cancer in cans and bags—in cans of Pringles and in bags of a myriad of other potato chips. This disturbing truth about an all-time favorite snack may be forcing food manufacturers to change their processing methods. But can the changes really make a difference? Researchers find that potato chips, among other processed foods, are loaded with the cancer causing chemical, acrylamide (uh-kril-uh-mahyd). The substance forms when carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked at very high temperatures. Some of the worst...

BOISE, Idaho -- Gov. Dirk Kempthorne has met with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in an effort to exempt french fries from a California list of foods requiring warnings that they could cause cancer. California is revising a citizen's right-to-know law passed in 1986 and will likely include specific warnings about food-based acrylamide. The chemical was previously considered an industrial agent until a 2002 study reported that it occurred naturally in many carbohydrate-rich foods. It occurs in cereals, for instance, though high levels in potatoes have been a focus, scientists say. It is released when the food is baked or fried....

Food Chemical Causes DNA Damage in Lab Scientists still don't know whether acrylamide acts the same way in animals. By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay is the new name for HealthScoutNews.) TUESDAY, June 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Researchers have discovered a possible mechanism by which a substance commonly found in fried and starchy foods might lead to genetic mutations that could lead to cancer, at least in mouse cells. It's entirely unclear, however, whether these findings about the chemical, acrylamide, have any application to humans. They appear in the June 18 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute....

BELTSVILLE, Md. - A possibly cancer-causing substance appears not only in popular fast foods, but in everyday, nutritious staples, too, government scientists say. Acrylamide, a substance that at very high doses causes cancer in animals, made headlines last spring when Swedish scientists discovered it lurking in popular foods like french fries and chips. High-carbohydrate foods cooked at very high temperatures seem to contain far more acrylamide than other foods. But products with lower levels that are eaten more frequently than junk- food snacks - from vitamin-packed breakfast cereal to toast and coffee - increase the U.S. population's overall exposure, the...

July 17, 2002 We, the jury, find the defendant “starchy”On April 24, Swedish scientists announced that a chemical called “acrylamide” had been found in rice, potatoes, and cereals -- all starchy foods that are usually cooked at high temperatures. During the following months, two separate groups of California trial lawyers announced plans to sue a wide range of restaurants and food manufacturers, based on the premise that the acrylamide in French fries, potato chips, and breakfast cereals is putting the public in grave danger. The first “notice of intent to sue” was filed only 7 days after the Swedes announced...

The World Health Organization (WHO) held 3 days of meetings last week on acrylamide, a carcinogen that forms when "rice, potatoes and cereals are fried or baked." Another white rat killer. Death squads have descended previously on water, air and popcorn. Now fries, to wit, "Care for some cancer with that burger?" Somewhere out there lurks a Pringles can with my name on it. Oh, the sting of death heaped upon us by the deep fryer. We are all going to die. The mortality rate is, and always has been, 100%. But this obsession with every remote danger grows annoying....

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Basic foods eaten by millions around the world such as bread, biscuits and french fries may have high levels of a substance that probably causes cancer, Sweden's National Food Administration said on Wednesday. Swedish scientists at Stockholm university made the shock discovery (news - web sites) while carrying out research on the effects of cooking staple foods such as cereals, rice and potatoes, in which they found the substance acrylamide, which probably causes cancer, the administration said in a statement. "Fried, oven-baked and deep-fried potato and cereal products may contain high levels of acrylamide, which is a...