Worth Sharing: Acrylamide Levels Found in Kid Snacks

From the Mercury News article:
Walgreens’ ‘Disney’ animal crackers contain cancerous chemical, group says

"Turns out the bare necessities involved in making that version of the crackers requires higher baking temperatures, which produces excessive levels of a cancer-causing chemical called acrylamide, said Charles Margulis of the Oakland-based Center for Environmental Health."

"Acrylamide is formed during frying, roasting, broiling, toasting or baking that results in browning of foods. In general, foods cooked to darker colors have higher acrylamide levels."

"Other animal crackers the group found contained levels of acrylamide requiring a warning under California law were: Barbara’s (Weetabix) Snackimals Vanilla Cookies; Stauffer’s Animal Crackers Original; Gold Emblem (a CVS store brand); Kirkland Signature organic (a Costco store brand); Mi-Del Gluten-free Arrowroot Cookies; Cookies Animalitos Galletas (La Moderna brand); and Galletas de Animalitos Con Betun brand."

"The group also found unhealthy acrylamide leveIs in eight out of 17 brands of ginger snap cookies, including Pepperidge Farm Ginger Family Cookies, Nabisco Ginger Snaps, Market Pantry (a Target store-brand) Gingersnaps, Signature Kitchens (an Albertson’s store-brand) Ginger Snaps, and others."