8.02.2008

Healthier chips and fries?

Settlement reached in potato chip lawsuit

Excerpt:

Four food manufacturers agreed to reduce levels of a cancer-causing chemical in their potato chips and french fries under a settlement announced Friday by the state attorney general's office.

California sued H.J. Heinz Co., Frito-Lay, Kettle Foods Inc., and Lance Inc. in 2005, alleging they violated a state requirement that companies post warning labels on products with carcinogens.

The companies avoided trial by agreeing to pay a combined $3 million in fines and reduce the levels of acrylamide in their products over three years, officials said.

"Other companies should follow this lead," Attorney General Jerry Brown said, calling the settlement "a victory for public health."

Acrylamide forms naturally when starchy foods are baked or fried. Studies have shown the chemical, which also has industrial uses, causes cancer in lab animals and nerve damage to workers who are exposed to high levels. The Food and Drug Administration is researching whether acrylamide in food poses a health risk.

"Everybody's trying to figure out how to lower levels (of acrylamide) without significantly, adversely affecting taste," said Michele Corish, an attorney for Lance, which produces Cape Cod chips.


Comment: Hard to believe that even this action would make these foods "good" (but I like them!)

1 comment:

  1. Really I can not understand why many years ago we all were in better health than we are today!And we ate the same snacks.Now everyone is sueing all these companies..But yet we get sick the most from all the imports from food. It is killing us and all of our pets as well.This includes tooth paste and toys and god only knows what else we use on a daily basis.Now I also find this very interesting...These other countries are sending imports here both food and other goods and we have made them rich and we are slowly turning into a 3rd world country, slowly getting poor. Now these countries are refusing our imports to them. LOL! Think about this and all of you people who sue over this junk food should be worried about how many people and animals are being killed every day from more serious problems like the imports from those who want to kill us all on purpose! All of you people who have sued I think it would just have been easier just not to eat the stuff that you think is bad for you it is a free country. Please take your winnings and help our government now to stop imports that are killing us and better yet stop imports all together!

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