Beware of french fries?If California Attorney General The California Attorney General is the State Attorney General of the government of the state of California in the USA. The officer's duty is to ensure that "the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced" (California Constitution, Article V, Section 13. Bill Lockyer William Westwood "Bill" Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is the current State Treasurer of California. Prior to this, he served as California's Attorney General and head of the Department of Justice for the U.S. state of California. has his way, all french fries and potato chips sold in his state will soon carry a warning label. These foods are loaded with fat, salt, simple carbs, and acrylamide--a chemical that forms when starchy starch·y adj. starch·i·er, starch·i·est 1. a. Containing starch. b. Stiffened with starch. 2. Of or resembling starch. 3. foods are heated at high temperatures. Acrylamide acrylamide /acryl·a·mide/ (ah-kril´ah-mid) a vinyl monomer used in the production of polymers with many industrial and research uses; the monomeric form is a neurotoxin. is known to cause cancer in laboratory rats and mice. This has prompted Lockyer to file suit against McDonald's, Burger King, FritoLay, and six other food companies, saying that they should be forced to label all french fries and potato chips sold in California with a label stating: "This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer." However, food companies argue that scientists do not know for certain that acrylamide will cause cancer in humans at the levels present in food. |
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