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From: [email protected] (Rich Young)
Subject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk
In article [email protected] (Richard Silver) writes:
>
>Some recent postings remind me that I had read about risks
>associated with the barbecuing of foods, namely that carcinogens
>are generated. Is this a valid concern? If so, is it a function
>of the smoke or the elevated temperatures? Is it a function of
>the cooking elements, wood or charcoal vs. lava rocks? I wish
>to know more. Thanks.
From THE TUFTS UNIVERSITY GUIDE TO TOTAL NUTRITION: Stanley Gershoff,
Ph.D., Dean of Tufts University School of Nutrition; HarperPerennial, 1991
(ISBN #0-06-272007-4):
"The greatest hazard of barbecuing is that the cook will not use
enough caution and get burned. Some people suggest that the
barbecuing itself is dangerous, because the smoke, which is
absorbed by the meat, contains benzopyrene, which, in its pure form,
has been known to cause cancer in laboratory animals. However,
in order to experience the same results, people would have to
consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a
time."
-Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)