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Everything causes cancer department

posted by Zed on April 26 2002 07:43

Common comfort foods carcinogenic. (Alliteration at no extra charge.)

...heating of carbohydrate-rich foods, such as potatoes, rice or cereals formed acrylamide, a much-studied substance classified as a probable human carcinogen.[...] an ordinary bag of potato chips may contain up to 500 times more of the substance than the top level allowed in drinking water by the World Health Organization (WHO).

French fries sold at Swedish franchises of U.S. fast-food chains Burger King Corp. and McDonald's contained about 100 times the 1 microgram per liter maximum permitted by the WHO for drinking water, the study showed.

[...]"Fried, oven-baked and deep-fried potato and cereal products may contain high levels of acrylamide."

Aw, man. Not baked potatoes too! Note: this study has not yet been peer-reviewed or journal-published. Let's see if it holds up to scrutiny.

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