Carcinogens found in high temperature processed foods in Sweden

Introduction: Sweden's State Food Administration announced recently that some ordinary foods contain a large number of carcinogens acrylamide after high-temperature processing However, some experts here believe that the warning still lacks the necessary scientific basis and is alarmist According to reports, Margarita turnquist, a lecturer at Stockholm University in Sweden, and a research team led by her found that some common foods, first of all carbohydrate foods, will produce different levels of carcinogen acrylamide after high-temperature processing, such as frying and baking, and the higher the processing temperature, the higher the content For example, the content of acrylamide in fried potato chips is the highest, with an average content of 980 micrograms per kilogram and 410 micrograms per kilogram of fried potato chips In addition, there are 280 μ g, 160 μ g and 150 μ g acrylamide in each kilogram of biscuit, hard bread, cereal and cornflake, respectively Even a kilogram of soft bread contains an average of 50 micrograms of acrylamide However, acrylamide is rarely found in raw food and common cooked food, even if there is, its content is too low to detect Buj experts from Sweden's national food administration, after receiving reports from researchers at Stockholm University, also tested the food and obtained the same results For this reason, Sweden's top food regulatory agency decided to make the results public to arouse people's awareness Leif busk, head of research and development at the agency, said it was "shocking" that ordinary foods such as potatoes contained so many toxins He said that according to the current Swedish diet, the average adult consumes nearly 40 micrograms of acrylamide through food every day According to the standards set by the World Health Organization, the amount of acrylamide consumed by each adult from water every day should not exceed 1 microgram Buj based on the tests conducted on animals to date, acrylamide is considered to be a carcinogen Experts from the Swedish food administration estimate that hundreds of cancers in Sweden every year may be related to the excessive intake of acrylamide However, it is not clear why the common food will produce acrylamide when it is processed at high temperature and how harmful acrylamide is to human body As a result, experts from some of Sweden's leading research institutions are critical of the publication of the research results Some experts said that it is an important discovery to contain too much acrylamide in ordinary food, but it is not clear how harmful acrylamide is at present It is "too early" to draw a sensational conclusion only based on the results of animal experiments Buj reported that the National Food Administration of Sweden has decided to organize national famous experts to carry out special research to overcome the problems of acrylamide produced during high-temperature processing of ordinary food and the harm of acrylamide to human body The Swedish National Food Administration has informed the European Union, the World Health Organization and other international food organizations of the results of the Swedish study, which has attracted the attention of the World Health Organization It has decided to hold an emergency meeting on this issue in Sweden BUJ