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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (12012)	11/6/2000 7:56:51 PM
From: Dalin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

.....minimizing the formation of cancer-causing chemicals. What is minimal? Hmmmm.........from nuclear weapons to burgers. Are we paying for this? <g> :0) D.

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (12012)	11/7/2000 2:50:40 PM
From: dustcatcher	Respond to of 65232

Tim: I hate to trample on someone's lines (sure I do) but that item on the perfect hamburger is all wet in one serious way. The "cancer-causing chemicals" formed by heating beef (or, frankly, most things organic) and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PNAs). These chemicals, as a class, do contain a few materials that have been shown to be carcinogenic in animals at horrendous doses. Chief among them, and the one used as a tracer of all, is benzo[a]pyrene (BAP). Neither BAP nor the class of PNAs has ever been linked to a single human cancer of any kind. My wife and I don't eat much beef (mainly fish and chicken for protein) but I do grill burgers at times and make no attempt to reduce or eliminate the char that contains all the PNAs. Unless one ate such meat for every meal and ate far too much for other health, the dose of BAP, et al. would not be large enough for any health effect (cancer, of course) to appear even if humans reacted in a manner similar to that of lab rats. The nonsense about PNAs and cancer was shown to be such a couple of decades ago and is similar to the nonsense we now hear about the hazards of magnetic waves, etc. from high-voltage transmission wires, the RF from cell phones and breast cancer from silicone implants. Just that, nonsense. There, I'm off my stump. ---Jack---