Animal studies have shown that
putting acrylamide in drinking water can give rats and mice cancer.
Not exact matches
Acrylamide has been linked to cancer in mice and rats when it's
put in their drinking water, but only in very high doses.
Even though our metabolic pathways can help us detoxify
acrylamide, however, we can still overload the detox capability of these pathways and
put ourselves at health risk from excess exposure to this substance.
French fries, chips, cookies, crackers, and cereals tend to have some of the highest levels of
acrylamide, courtesy of the processing they've been
put through.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) really has not acknowledged the negative impact of cancer - causing
acrylamides, and food manufacturers, so far, are not
putting warning labels on their products concerning the levels of
acrylamides, either.