Prolonged Psychological Fear Based on Unfounded/Distorted Claims:

Acrylamide - a.k.a. The Great Potato and Coffee Scare

• Reply Brief to June 4, 2003 Petition of the Center for Science in the Public Interest to Establish Interim Acceptable Levels for Acrylamide in Major Food Sources.
• Understanding Risk
• Acrylamide Leaving your French Fries?
• Cereal Killer? HAH!
• Acrylamide Facts, Fresh From The Oven
• Acrylamide in Food: Is It a Real Threat to Public Health?
• Long-Term Dietary Acrylamide Intake and Breast Cancer Risk in a Prospective Cohort of Swedish Women
• Study: No Link Between French Fry Chemical, Breast Cancer
• Facts vs. Fears, A Review of the Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times by Adam Lieberman and Simona Kwon [Chapter 26 - Acrylamide, "The Great Potato Chip Scare"]
• Health Panel Finds All-Natural Carcinogens Galore in Holiday Dinner Menu
• Environmental org chips in to chemophobia with acrylamide litigation
• California’s misleading propositions
• Stop! Don't Toast That Bread, Or Risk Acrylamide 'Poisoning'
• European Union Still Drinking The Acrylamide Kool-Aid
• Cancer experts say coffee is safe, despite California's new warning label requirement

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