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acrylamide

[ə′kril·ə‚mīd]
(organic chemistry)
CH2CHCONH2 Colorless, odorless crystals with a melting point of 84.5°C; soluble in water, alcohol, and acetone; used in organic synthesis, polymerization, sewage treatment, ore processing, and permanent press fabrics.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Purity intentionally grows, farms, transports, and roasts their coffee to maximize healthy antioxidants and minimize harmful chemicals, such as pesticides, micro-toxins, acrylamides and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
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Food and Drug Administration tests of acrylamide levels found they ranged from 175 to 351 parts per billion (a measure of concentration for a contaminant) for six brands of coffee tested; the highest was for one type of decaf coffee crystals.
The findings also suggested that baby foods today had 70 per cent more acrylamide than the average French fry, a chemical which has been linked to brain damage and reproductive challenges.
Following the intramuscular injections of 1 ml aqueous monomer solutions at 50 mg/ kg concentrations, acrylamide group animals were sacrificed at 1st, 2nd and 3rd weeks, methacrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamid and acrylic acid group animals were sacrificed at 1st, 2nd, 4th and 6th weeks.
The study also found that baby foods have 70 per cent more acrylamide than the average French Fry, a chemical which has been linked to brain damage and reproductive challenges.
Acrylamide levels would be far lower if the FDA had set limits on the amount in foods instead of simply issuing voluntary guidelines on how to lower levels in 2016.
Acrylamide (AM), octadecyl methacrylate, and N,N'-bis(acryloyl)-cystamine form an amphipathic copolymer at this system (Figure 1).
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