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KFWB NEWS 980 -- ALL NEWS ALL THE TIME
Tuesday, June 25, 2002

Emergency Meeting Over Carcinogen Report
GENEVA (AP) 6.24.02, 10:15a -- Alarmed about new studies
indicating that potato chips, french fries and certain types
of bread contain a substance that may cause cancer, the World
Health Organization has convened an emergency meeting to
evaluate the research and decide what action to take.
The three-day meeting, which opens Tuesday, follows the
publication in April of a Swedish study that some starch-based
foods cooked at high temperatures contained acrylamide.
Acrylamide, used to produce plastics and dyes and to purify
drinking water, has been shown to be carcinogenic in animal
experiments and is suspected of causing cancer among people
exposed to high levels for long periods. Although traces of it
have been found in water, its possible presence at high levels
in basic foods came as a shock.
"If what we know from water and animal experiments is true, it
could be a very significant source of cancer in humans," said
Jorgen Schlundt, coordinator of WHO's food safety division.
"It is not just another food scare," he said.
Such was the level of WHO concern that it organized the
gathering of 25 international experts within two months of the
publication of the Swedish study. According to Schlundt, this
set a "world record" for the U.N. health agency, which usually
takes about one year to organize meetings of experts to review
scientific data.
Although much is known about acrylamide and its effects in
animals, there is far less information about its effects on
humans. After the study was released in April, some U.S.
scientists urged consumers to be patient in awaiting more
investigation.
"I think we need to step back a little bit and wait for
greater discussion of the issue and see the findings presented
in more detail," said Carl Winter, a toxicologist at the
University of California at Davis. "The most important thing
is not the presence or absence of any type of ingredient, but
how much is there."
Mary Ellen Camire, a food scientist and nutritionist at the
University of Maine, was skeptical about any link to cancer
and said it was important to remember that whole-grain bread
and potatoes contain a lot of important nutrients.
"The risk-to-benefit ratio is hard to estimate," she said at
the time. "We eat a lot of strange chemicals, but that's life.
You just have to get a balance."
Schlundt said subsequent studies in Norway, Britain and
Switzerland basically backed up the findings of Sweden's
National Food Administration.

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"It is not a case of a batch of wrong results from
scientists," he said. "Everybody who has any expertise
understands this is a potential threat."
In voicing misgivings about the validity of the Swedish
results, which were based on 100 foods, scientists noted that
they were released at a government news conference rather than
passing through normal peer review procedures in a scientific
journal.
The Swedish researchers said that "fried, oven-baked and
deep-fried potato and cereal products may contain high levels
of acrylamide." The same results were not found in boiled
products.
Swedish government scientists estimated it could be
responsible for several hundred of the 45,000 cancer cases in
the country each year, based on experiments in which rats were
fed fried food.
Schlundt said the type of cancers provoked by acrylamide in
animals were not just limited to the digestive tract, but also
included the mammary and testicular glands, and skin. But he
stressed there was no evidence to suggest this could apply to
humans. He said it was premature to predict whether the
meeting would urge dietary changes, or recommend further
studies in specific areas.
Regardless of the acrylamide fears, there is basic consensus
that people should limit consumption of fried and fatty foods
if they want a healthy diet. But it would prove more difficult
to issue advice concerning bread -- and only certain types are
so far implicated -- given its importance in many national
diets.

©2002 Radio Web Network. All rights reserved.

In related news, a 17-year old undergraduate has discovered that LIFE CAUSES CANCER. A careful, double-blind analysis showed zero incidence of cancer in dead people. "It's simple, really. If you're really so worried about all these carcinogens, kill yourself."

Methinks it's a Swede anti-Mcdonalds conspiracy.

The most common carcinogen on Earth is dihydrogen oxide. Please don't make me elaborate....

I know it's one of the biggest causes of death, but I wouldn't call drowning a form of cancer.

Yum yum I just finished a bag of RUFFLES POTATO CHIPS!!! (the best)

I'm still eating potato chips, everybody's got to go sometime [smoke]

SNorman and ECS, you guys suck, I'm trying to stay the hell away from chips (not because of the cancer risk, but rather for my waistline) and now you guys made me crave them something fierce!

It was a Super Size bag too... mmm I can't possibly eat all this crispy, yummy, fatty-fried goodness... oh wait yes I can :)

Oh can I twist the knife in your side a bit more by mentioning I'm 6' 5", 176 lbs... yee haw! More chips baby!

Isn't this the same study from Two months ago that after looking deeper into the facts that you needed to eat 66lbs of frys and chips per day??

No, drowning is not a form of cancer, and neither is being over weight from eating too many potato chips! However, based on what I've seen of current scientific standards, it must be a carcinogen - every thing on the planet seems to be.

Well, that seals it. I'm cutting down to 50lbs per day!

I think this says more than my post:



It's run by some bitch woman.



Full article here
[url]http://www.reason.com/0201/fe.bd.who.shtml[/url]

What, you want to live forever?

"If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end."
  -- P.J. O'Rourke

Most everything is carcinogenic these days but if ya die you can bet yer ass the real cause is from second hand smoke..[rolleyes]

I'll give you that.

It's funny though, how people react as though if it wasn't for all these harmful things around us we'd live forever. Birth is the beginning of death, deal with it and move on.

OATMEAL!
The silent killer....