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ANSES finds system to monitor chemicals in food largely effective

By Joe Whitworth on January 15, 2020

The system for monitoring chemical contamination of food in France works well most of the time but has some gaps, according to ANSES.

The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES)…
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No cancer warnings required on coffee sold in California after all

By Dan Flynn on June 5, 2019

California is officially taking a “Roseanne Roseannadanna” approach with a big “nevermind” about those cancer warnings that were supposed to go on coffee.

Like burning toast, roasting coffee beans produces trace amounts of acrylamide, a…
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Firms rush to market with acrylamide control product ahead of new regs

By Dan Flynn on February 7, 2019

No one knew acrylamide even existed until it was discovered in 2002. It’s been around close to forever, though. Awareness of the chemical raised a problem. It is “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen,”…
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Go ahead, bend your elbows for that morning fix: Coffee’s OK

By Kelsey M. Mackin on April 5, 2018

Java enthusiasts can brew in peace as new research shows that the presence of acrylamide, a known carcinogenic chemical, in nine of the top selling coffee brands is undetectable.

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UK prepares to comply with Europe’s new acrylamide rules

By News Desk on November 30, 2017

Food businesses in Europe must take “practical steps” to manage acrylamide within their food safety management systems beginning in April. New European Union legislation describes “practical measures” food businesses must take to mitigate acrylamide formation…
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EU to set acrylamide benchmarks in 2018: Don’t burn the toast

By Dan Flynn on July 27, 2017

The European Union and the United States are taking different approaches to a fairly recently discovered chemical that’s been in food as long as men and women have been cooking with fire.

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FDA Offers Industry Guidance on Acrylamide in Food

By News Desk on November 15, 2013

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued draft guidance for industry on how to reduce levels of acrylamide in certain foods to help mitigate potential human health risks. Acrylamide forms from a chemical…
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“Secret” Yeast Additive Gets GRAS Approval

By News Desk on September 6, 2012

Acrylamide-preventing yeast strains might not sound like something worth celebrating, but do not tell that to the folks at Functional Technologies Corp. Acrylamide is a known lethal neurotoxin that sometimes occurs in cooked starchy foods,…
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Panel: Acrylamide in Food Unlikely to Pose Health Risk

By James Andrews on January 27, 2012

Dietary levels of acrylamide, the chemical compound and known carcinogen naturally produced from cooking food, cannot be shown to pose any health risk to humans, according to an expert panel organized by the International Food

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EFSA Finds Little Success in Lowering Acrylamide

By James Andrews on April 28, 2011

A report published last week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has found limited success in efforts to encourage voluntary food industry reductions of acrylamide in processed food products. The annual report followed the

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What's Cooking? Acrylamide

By International Food Information Council Foundation on February 9, 2011

With last week’s release of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, there was an increase in attention on healthy eating.  The same may be true about the upcoming release of the National Toxicology Program (NTP)…
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