Acrylamide Risk Communication

FAO/WHO Acrylamide in Food Network

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition	2004 Acrylamide in Food Workshop: Update - Scientific Issues, Uncertainties, and Research Strategies Presentations and other materials from this workshop on acrylamide in foods held April 13-15, 2004 in Chicago, IL. Presentations include "An EU Perspective on Acrylamide in Food"/Slayne, Martin; "Acrylamide in Food - Mitigation"/Lingnert, Hans; "Mitigation Options: The FRI Acrylamide Program"/Pariza, Michael W.; "The Updated Exposure Assessment for Acrylamide"/DiNovi, Michael and Howard, Donna; "Characterizing the Risks of Acrylamide in Food"/Gray, George; "Update on FAPAS acrylamide series"/Castle, Laurence; "Report on activities carried out by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre"/Wenzl, Thomas and Anklam, Elke. Presentations and summary reports from working groups are also available. Working groups included "Mechanisms of Formation and Methods of Mitigation," "Analytical Methodology," "Exposure and Biomarkers," "Toxicology and Metabolic Consequences," "Risk Communication," and "Risk Characterization". (more) Event Dates: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - Thursday, April 15, 2004 Publication Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2004	Apr 28, 2004
	American Chemical Society	227th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition This page provides access to abstracts from this meeting held March 28-April 1, 2004 in Anaheim, CA. Symposia at this meeting included "Chemistry and Safety of Acrylamide in Food," "Challenges in Herb Research," "Modern Extraction Techniques for Food and Agricultural Samples," "Perchlorate Uptake in Plants -- Interaction of Soils, Nutrients, Ground & Irrigation Water," "Natural Products for Pest Management," and many others. (more) Event Dates: Sunday, March 28, 2004 - Thursday, April 1, 2004 Publication Date: Sunday, March 28, 2004	Jan 16, 2004
	National Toxicology Program, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	Acrylamide Substance profile on acrylamide including information on carcinogenicity, properties, use, production, exposure, and regulations for acrylamide. (more) Publication Year: 2005	Aug 6, 2002
	Air Toxics Website, Technology Transfer Network, Environmental Protection Agency	Acrylamide This fact sheet presents a hazard summary and information on uses, exposure routes, health effects, cancer risk, and physical properties of acrylamide. (more)	Sep 10, 2002
	Rudén, C.	Acrylamide and Cancer Risk - Expert Risk Assessments and the Public Debate This report compares conclusions reached and primary data used for fourteen expert risk assessments on the carcinogenic risk from acrylamide. Arguments used to questions these risk assessments are summarized and discussed. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Month: March 2004	Feb 17, 2004
	Reynolds, Tom	Acrylamide and Cancer: Tunnel Leak in Sweden Prompted Studies Article that discusses the Swedish findings regarding acrylamide in foods and the way the findings were publicized. Publication Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002	Aug 10, 2004
	Baum, Matthias, et al.	Acrylamide and Glycidamide: Genotoxic Effects in V79-Cells and Human Blood Investigation of mutagenicity of acrylamide and its metabolite glycidamide. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Date: Monday, February 7, 2005	Feb 15, 2005
	Konings, E.J.M., et al.	Acrylamide Exposure from Foods of the Dutch Population and an Assessment of the Consequent Risks Report of a three-part study that included analyzing the acrylamide levels in a variety of Dutch foods, estimating acrylamide exposure in the Dutch population, and estimating neurotoxic and carcinogenic risk from consumption of acrylamide at these exposure levels. The article is located temporarily under the Articles in Press section. The abstract is freely available, but subscription is necessary to access the full text of the article. (more) Publication Month: November 2003	Aug 15, 2003
	Shaw, Ian; Thomson, Barbara	Acrylamide Food Risk Brief correspondence regarding the risk from acrylamide in chips and potato crisps. Publication Date: Saturday, February 1, 2003	Feb 6, 2003
	Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture	Acrylamide in Christmas Cakes This page presents results of assessment of acrylamide levels in gingerbread, gingerbread-like cakes, and thin almond biscuits over two time periods to examine the effects of minimisation measures for acrylamide in foods. (more)	Aug 17, 2004

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