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Published online 30 March 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040329-2
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No link between acrylamide and breast cancer
Food chemical may pose little risk to humans.
Eating food that contains acrylamide, a probable human carcinogen, does not seem to increase the risk of breast cancer. The results, from a Swedish study involving 50,000 women, were announced at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting in Anaheim today.
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