From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxi!mhuxv!pdt
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Title: additives--who'd have thunk?
Article-I.D.: mhuxv.7
Posted: Tue Mar 22 21:48:30 1983
Received: Wed Mar 23 19:41:20 1983


Believe it or else, the February, 1983, issue of AMERICAN LABORATORY
contains an article about cancer prevention.  Strange as it may sound,
two antioxidant food additives, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and
butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) have actually been identified as
"specific agents that inhibit [!] carcinogen-induced cancers".
The author cites J.Toxicol.Environ.Health, 5-6, 963 (1980) as the
source (no, I haven't looked it up) of this unexpected information.

What is this world coming to, when you can't even hate completely
the chemicals they dump in our food???