POSSIBLE CANCER CAUSER FOUND ACROSS FOOD PYRAMID, SCIENTISTS FEAR

Associated Press ^

[graycamel]

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 Food and Drug Administration said Monday.

[George W. Bush]

Now they tell us. After I've been happily mainlining Acrylamide for years.

signed                        
Acrylamide junkie

[Sacajaweau]

Don't drink the water either!!!!!!

[ggekko]

Remember the 60 Minutes Alar scare; apple growers were hit hard by a study that was financed by a group affiliated with trial attorneys and that was based on junk science.

Any study associated with Ralph Nader groups such The Center for Science for the Public Interest is inherently suspect as they are usually creating raw data to be used in a future class-action law suits.

[latrans]

I do not need any further reason to dump the french fries.

[graycamel]

Thanx for the article. Reminds me of the bumper sticker, save water, drink beer.

[graycamel]

Oh, ps I'm having a little trouble in my physics class. The teachers don't explain it very well. I have one teacher for lecture and another for lab and they seem to be on a different page.

[graycamel]

They STILL have warning labels on saccharine... and that claim was bogus.

[graycamel]

No RATS, not even bureaucRATS or democRATS, could get cancer from ingesting normal amounts of this stuff.