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AdamN on June 28, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods conta...

That's sort of the boogeyman way it's been interpreted but the other way of looking at it is that those items really are carcinogenic. And it's not the 'give a rate 100x the amount anybody could possibly digest and of course they get cancer' trope either - these really are substances that have cancer risk and they're very common in modern life.

LorenPechtel on June 28, 2024 [–]

But they're not all over the place like you would think from the 65 nonsense.

The vast majority of cases are trace levels of low risk materials. Never mind that in most cases you're facing a lot more risk from natural materials.

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