Acrylamide… a hidden danger
Acrylamide is a chemical with a variety of industrial uses. Acrylamide is used
to make polyacrylamide, which is used, for example, in some cosmetics and in
some food packaging materials, in soil conditioning agents, and in the formation
of plastics and specialized grouting agents. Recently, acrylamide has been
detected in a wide range of food products.
Swedish scientists studying the results of occupational acrylamide exposure
detected signs of acrylamide exposure (or markers of acrylamide exposure) in
people who were not known to have been exposed to acrylamide from environmental
or industrial sources. Acrylamide has been shown to cause cancer in animals in
studies where they were exposed to the chemical at very high doses