Saturday, April 27, 2002
Acrylamide
The latest HEALTH SCARE comes from Stockholm University researchers who claim to have shown that baking or frying carbohydrate-rich foods, such as potatoes and cereals, formed acrylamide, a substance classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a "probable human carcinogen."
To keep a balanced view of these 'scientific' announcements, it's always worth checking out WWW.JUNKSCIENCE.COM for an independent analysis of these kinds of stories.
As Steven Milloy, publisher of JunkScience.Com, says "To get an equivalent daily dose of acrylamide as the lab animals, someone of average bodyweight would have to eat 35,000 potato chips (about 62.5 pounds) per day for life."