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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: MOLD ON CHEESE (actually carcinogens)
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 16:05:55 EDT
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Summary: fried meat studies

> >I gave up worrying about THINGS THAT MIGHT CAUSE CANCER when I heard, in
> >a detailed news report, that fried hamburger might.
> 
>    I read in Omni magazine that a researcher right here at the U of Wisconsin
> found that fried hamburger may actually help *prevent* cancer.  I thought
> I'd pass this tidbit along even though I take anything I read in Omni with
> an extremely large grain of salt (or was that MSG...).
>   

I think that the studies of carcinogens in fried meat may have been done
by Professor Bruce Ames at UC Berkeley.  I think it was the burning and 
browning which was harmful - rare meat was more safe.  There are plenty
of plenty of papers by Ames and at least one summary in Science, if
anyone wants to do a literature search.