Acrylamide Risk Management

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Acrylamide Policy and Actions

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	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
	Sakagami, Kazuyuki, et al.	Acrylamide Production Inhibitor Japanese patent document for an acrylamide production inhibitor with active ingredient luteolin. Publication Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004	Jun 16, 2005
	Tadahiro, Nagata; Hiroshi, Hosoda; Kazuyuki, Sakagami	Acrylamide Production Inhibitor Japanese patent document for an acrylamide production inhibitor with a sulfide compound such as allylmethyltrisulfide, dimethyltetrasulfide, or dimethyldisulfide as active ingredient. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, September 29, 2005	Apr 13, 2006
	Food and Drug Administration	Assessing Acrylamide in the U.S. Food Supply; Public Meeting; Draft Action Plan on Acrylamide; Availability College Park, MD: This public meeting will address the activities of the FDA regarding acrylamide in foods, including a discussion of FDA's draft action plan on acrylamide. The document also contains background information on this issue, as well as information on how to access FDA's draft action plan on acrylamide. (more) Event Date: Monday, September 30, 2002 Publication Date: Thursday, September 12, 2002	Mar 12, 2004
	Office of the Attorney General, California Department of Justice	Attorney General Lockyer Files Lawsuit to Require Consumer Warning About Cancer-Causing Chemical in Potato Chips and French Fries: Action Against Nine Firms Says Warning on Acrylamide Required by Proposition 65 Release regarding a lawsuit against nine potato chip and french fry manufacturers for violating Proposition 65 requirements of warnings about acrylamide. A copy of the complaint is included as an attachment. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Publication Date: Friday, August 26, 2005	Aug 31, 2005
		Chains' Warning-sign Avoidance Could Backfire in Acrylamide Spat with Calif. Attorney General Editorial on the California lawsuit against food chains regarding violation of Proposition 65 provisions related to acrylamide in foods. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Deadline: Thursday, November 10, 2005 Publication Date: Monday, September 12, 2005	Nov 10, 2005
	Mayer, Yaron	Composition and Method for Preparing Crispy Starchy Foods (Such as for Example Chips, Snacks, and Breakfast Cereals) Without Destructive Processes that Create Dangerous Chemicals Application for a World Intellectual Property Organisation patent on a method for preparing crispy or crunchy foods without heating at high temperatures in order to reduce acrylamide levels in these foods. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, January 15, 2004	Aug 9, 2004
	Vattem, Dhiraj A.; Shetty, Kalidas	Compositions of Legume Proteins and Methods of Use Thereof for Reducing Acrylamide in Cooked Foods Application for a U.S. patent on methods for preparing food for cooking in oil that will control the formation of acrylamide upon cooking and on related compositions and food products. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, March 3, 2005	Mar 29, 2005
	Grune, Guerry; Talarico, T.	Devices and Methods for the Rapid, Reliable Detection and Determiniation of Acrylamide Concentration in Food Substances and Prevention of Acrylamide Formation in the Same Application for a U.S. patent on a device and analytical method for detecting levels of acrylamide in food. Publication Date: Thursday, February 9, 2006	Mar 29, 2006
	Simic-Glavaski, Branimir; Simic, Michael G.	Electron Source for Food Treating Apparatus and Method Application for a U.S. patent on an apparatus and method for reducing acrylamide levels in foods by treating it with DC electric current. (more) Deadline: Monday, July 10, 2006 Publication Date: Thursday, January 26, 2006	Jul 10, 2006

Other Acrylamide Risk Management Resources

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
	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
	International Food Safety Authorities Network, World Health Organization	Acrylamide in Food is a Potential Health Hazard Notice regarding JECFA's evaluation of acrylamide and FAO/WHO conclusions and recommendations. Deadline: Thursday, November 10, 2005 Publication Date: Thursday, March 3, 2005	Nov 10, 2005
	German BgVV (Federal Institute for Health Protection of Consumers and Veterinary Medicine)	Acrylamide in Foods - Serious Problem or Exaggerated Risk? Berlin, Germany: Report from this information seminar on acrylamide in foods. Topics include history and use of acrylamide, exposure, toxicology, development of analytical methods, acrylamide levels in foods, formation in foods, research on reducing acrylamide, and risk communication. A German- language version of this document is available here. (more) Event Date: Thursday, August 29, 2002 Publication Month: August 2002	Aug 19, 2002
	Slayne, Martin A.; Lineback, David R.	Acrylamide: Considerations for Risk Management Abstract of an article on issues related to the risk management of acrylamide in foods. Publication Month: January 2005	Mar 23, 2005
	Renn, Ortwin	Acrylamide: Lessons for Risk Management and Communication This article discusses risk management and risk communication of systemic risks such as acrylamide. This article does not have a freely available abstract. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Month: September 2003	Sep 17, 2004
	German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment	Aktivitäten von BgVV und BfR im Hinblick auf Acrylamid in Lebensmitteln [in German] This document discusses the actions of the BgVV and BfR with regards to acrylamide in foods, including measures related to risk management, toxicology, analytical methods, and exposure assessment. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2002	Aug 11, 2004
	Lee, Kyoung-Youl, et al.	Chemoprevention of Acrylamide Toxicity by Antioxidative Agents in Rats - Effective Suppression of Testicular Toxicity by Phenylethyl Isothiocyanate Report of a study on the abilities of N-acetylcysteine, phenyhlethyl isothiocyanate, and 1-O-hexyl-2,3,5-trimethylhydroquinone to prevent acrylamide-induced neurotoxicity and testicular toxicity in rats. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Publication Date: Thursday, April 28, 2005	Oct 19, 2005
	German BgVV (Federal Institute for Health Protection of Consumers and Veterinary Medicine)	Einfluss der Ernährung auf die Aufnahme von Acrylamid: Durch Änderungen im Ernährungsverhalten kann der Verbraucher die Acrylamid-Aufnahme deutlich reduzieren [in German] Report that discusses the results of a study on the effects of reducing intake of certain foods on dietary intake of acrylamide. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2002	Aug 16, 2004

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