from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 04:20
https://sh.itjust.works/post/55250338
Cadmium in breakfast cereals, aluminum in pastries and sweet biscuits, lead in bread, mercury in fish and acrylamide in fries and sautéed potatoes: French people – children in particular – are exposed to “excessively high” levels of chemical pollutants through their diet. The warning comes from the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), which highlighted a “health risk” for three metals (cadmium, aluminum and mercury) and a “health concern” – in the absence of a reference toxicological threshold – for lead and acrylamide, an organic compound formed during cooking methods above 120°C (such as frying or roasting).
These conclusions are based on the third major total diet study (EAT3), the previous one having been conducted between 2006 and 2011. The study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of chronic exposure to chemical contaminants in food among the population of France. The first results were published on Thursday, February 12. EAT3 targeted more than 250 substances. Further sections, covering other pollutant families (including pesticide residues, PFAS, bisphenols, phthalates, etc.), will be released gradually in the coming years.
The foods selected for the study (272 in total) represented more than 90% of the average French diet. Over 700 samples were collected between May 2021 and August 2022 from supermarkets and markets in three departments (Hérault on the Mediterranean coast, Loiret south of Paris, and Puy-de-Dôme in the center of France). These were analyzed in laboratories to identify and quantify chemical contaminants. The results were then combined with food consumption data to estimate population exposure and health risks.
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Mercury in fish is a pretty universal problem for people who eat them, which is especially concerning given there’s no safe level for consumption of mercury.
Pretty much every food species fish is being overfished anyway, so better just don’t eat fish.
Sous vide, steam, and soup going forward.
Did some search and apparently it’s formed by sugar and amino acid, which is everywhere. And it’s formed on browned and burned part of starchy food from cooking in high heat, which also include bread and biscuit.
And here’s a catch: it’s merely a media scare, because according to Cancer Research UK, it will only cause cancer in very high dose, which is how the researcher originally found out on animal study and we will likely not getting anyway near those dose. It’s like drowning rat with water and then proclaim that water is a harmful substance and human should avoid it.
It sounds like you are ridiculing the known dangers of dihydrogen monoxide! /s
Also: Everyone who has been exposed to hydrogen hydroxide will die.
100%
You don’t know that! Only about 92% of humans have ever died, from any cause. For all you know, the remaining 8% could be immortal.
#abusingstatistics
Y’know, I read that headline as a Canadian and the first thing that came to mind was why your primary language would affect the levels of cadmium in your food.
Has anyone checked in on Quebec recently
I only get cadmium around Easter. I wish they sold those cadmium cream eggs all year 'round… 😔
That explains the rise of the far-right.