> http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/06/06252002/ap_47645.asp > - 6/25/2002 > WHO hosts urgent meeting on acrylamide in food
Permit me to carry the thought process a wee tad further for us common laypersons. Anyone ever given much thought to the decay product of glycerin under conditions of inadequate combustion? Oddly enough it's call acrolein - rather toxic to living things, especially breathing "things," at least according to every MSDS sheet I've read. So take that "decay consideration," slap a bunch of potato shreds in a high temp tri-glyceride bath, or bake a grain product with a high oil content, and what might you think you'll get? Perhaps acrilomide? Glycerin, in the form of triglycerides, exposed to semi-high temps of frying and baking...~350* Fahrenheit. But then there is this statement: "The Swedish researchers said that "fried, oven-baked, and deep-fried potato and cereal products may contain high levels of acrylamide." The same results were not found in boiled products." A bit odd that water boils at 212* Fahrenheit, ~140* lower and a considerably less "destructive" temp range than baking or frying. Makes one wonder if there won't be a rush in the appliance and food processing markets for products that can cook foods in the temperature range of boiling, rather than frying and baking. Also makes one wonder if there won't be a rush for oils that are 100% FFAs, rather than a blend of tri-glycerides and FFAs. That would sure throw a kink in biodiesel manufacture when using waste restaurant oils. It would force every shadetree biodieseler to move towards high pressure esterification, rather than "STP" transesterification. It would also put some pressure on the animal feed and rendering industries to move away from using reprocessed WVOs as protein/energy additives to feed. Would be a shame to kill the AKC registered family pet simply by feeding it Puppy Chow. Todd Swearingen ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/3PCXaC/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
