Warning -- Food Labels Out of Step with Science

By ACSH Staff — Sep 07, 2005
A Wednesday, September 7, 2005 article by Spyros Andreopoulos from the San Francisco Chronicle's website notes ACSH's reasons for thinking that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's suit against purveyors of foods containing acrylamide is bogus:

A Wednesday, September 7, 2005 article by Spyros Andreopoulos from the San Francisco Chronicle's website notes ACSH's reasons for thinking that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's suit against purveyors of foods containing acrylamide is bogus:

Human cancer risk from dietary acrylamide cannot be assessed when based exclusively on high exposure in laboratory animals, according to the American Council of Science and Health. And so far, no solid evidence has surfaced linking tiny amounts of this chemical to human cancer to justify what Lockyer wants.

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