Acrylamide Risk Assessment

FAO/WHO Acrylamide in Food Network

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Cummins, E.; Butler, F.;Gormleyb, R.; Brunton, N.	A Methodology for Evaluating the Formation and Human Exposure to Acrylamide through Fried Potato Crisps This study develops a farm-to-fork human exposure assessment model for acrylamide in fried potato crisps for Irish consumers. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Month: June 2008	May 30, 2008
	Integrated Risk Information System, Environmental Protection Agency	Acrylamide (CASRN 79-06-1) Information and data on acrylamide from EPA's IRIS database. Includes Chronic Health Hazard Assessments for Noncarcinogenic Effects, Reference Dose for Chronic Oral Exposure (RfD), and Carcinogenicity Assessment for Lifetime Exposure, which contains Evidence for Human Carcinogenicity, Quantitative Estimate of Carcinogenic Risk from Oral Exposure, Dose-Response Data, and more. (more)	Aug 6, 2002
	Rudén, C.	Acrylamide and Cancer Risk - Expert Risk Assessments and the Public Debate This report compares conclusions reached and primary data used for fourteen expert risk assessments on the carcinogenic risk from acrylamide. Arguments used to questions these risk assessments are summarized and discussed. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Month: March 2004	Feb 17, 2004
	Konings, E.J.M., et al.	Acrylamide Exposure from Foods of the Dutch Population and an Assessment of the Consequent Risks Report of a three-part study that included analyzing the acrylamide levels in a variety of Dutch foods, estimating acrylamide exposure in the Dutch population, and estimating neurotoxic and carcinogenic risk from consumption of acrylamide at these exposure levels. The article is located temporarily under the Articles in Press section. The abstract is freely available, but subscription is necessary to access the full text of the article. (more) Publication Month: November 2003	Aug 15, 2003
	German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment	Acrylamide in Foods: Initial Successes But No Breakthrough This release provides an overview of research related to the risk assessment of acrylamide one year after the Swedish National Food Administration first called attention to the problem of acrylamide in foods. It is available in German. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, April 17, 2003	Jun 6, 2003
	Hamscher, G.	[Acrylamide, Antiparasitic Agents, Dioxins and More: How Dangerous are Contaminants and Residues in Food?] Abstract of an article on the occurrence of contaminants such as dioxins and acrylamide and residues such as antibiotics and antiparasitic agents in foods and on the risks of consuming these contaminants and residues in foods. The original article is in German. (more) Publication Month: July 2004	Sep 21, 2004
	Dearfield, Kerry L., et al.	Acrylamide: A Review of Its Genotoxicity and an Assessment of Heritable Genetic Risk Review of acrylamide genotoxicity studies and report of an assessment of the heritable genetic risk from acrylamide. Subscription or purchase may be required to access the full text. (more) Publication Month: August 1995	Mar 12, 2004
	German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment	Bedeutung der Arbeit von Pelucchi et al für die Risikobewertung von Acrylamid in Lebensmitteln [in German] Critical discussion of the findings published by Pelucchi, et al., Int. J. Cancer 150(2003): 558-560. Publication Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2003	Aug 10, 2004
	German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment	Bedeutung der Studie von Mucci et al. für die Risikobewertung von Acrylamid in Lebensmitteln [in German] Critical discussion of the findings published by Mucci, et al., British J. of Cancer 88(2003): 84-89 in terms of the study's meaningfulness for risk assessment of acrylamide in foods. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2003	Aug 11, 2004
	Granath, F., et al.	Cancer Risk From Exposure to Occupational Acrylamide Correspondence article and reply regarding cancer risk from occupational exposure to acrylamide, in response to an article by Marsh, et al. in Occup Environ Med 56(1999): 181-190. (more) Publication Month: September 2001	Oct 21, 2003
	Friedman, Mendel	Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Safety of Acrylamide. A Review Report reviewing published information that "presents data on the chemistry, analysis, and biological effects of acrylamide and outlines possible approaches to reduce the acrylamide content in food." Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Publication Date: Thursday, July 3, 2003	Mar 29, 2006
	Mucci, Lorelei A.; Lindblad, Per; Steineck, Gunnar; Adami, Hans-Olov	Dietary Acrylamide and Risk of Renal Cell Cancer Report of a study on the association between dietary acrylamide intake (intake of certain foods with elevated acrylamide levels and daily acrylamide intake) and the risk of renal cell cancer. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004	Mar 9, 2004
	Tornqvist, Margareta; Ehrenberg, Lars	Estimation of Cancer Risk Caused by Environmental Chemicals Based on In Vivo Dose Measurement This report discusses a model for estimating cancer risks from genotoxic chemicals based on measurement of dose. Access to full text requires subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Year: 2001	May 29, 2003
		European Union Risk Assessment Report: ACRYLAMIDE Final report of an assessment of the risk from exposure to acrylamide due to environmental, occupational, and other exposures. Includes the appendix "Contribution to an existing substances review of acrylamide toxicity: the contribution of biological monitoring". (more) Publication Year: 2002	Feb 13, 2004
	Dybing, E., et al.	Human Exposure and Internal Dose Assessments of Acrylamide in Food This article reviews the formation, intake (including potential biomarkers of exposure and dosage), and possible reduction of acrylamide in food. A physiologically based toxicokinetic (PBTK) model is also discussed. (more) Publication Month: March 2005	Feb 4, 2005
	Tritscher, Angelika M.	Human Health Risk Assessment of Processing-related Compounds in Food This report discusses risk assessment as applied to 3-monochloropropanediol (MCPD) and acrylamide in foods. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, April 1, 2004	Apr 27, 2004
	Weber, E.A., et al.	Impact of Nitrogen Amount and Timing on the Potential of Acrylamide Formation in Winter Wheat In a 2-year field trial the impact of nitrogen (N) amount and timing on the content of AA precursors and the potential of AA formation in different winter wheat cultivars (cv.) were studied in association with respective grain yields and parameters of baking quality. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008	Dec 20, 2007
	Paulsson, B., F. Granath, J. Grawé, L. Ehrenberg, and M. Törnqvist	Multiplicative Model for Cancer Risk Assessment: Applicability to Acrylamide Study on the effectiveness of applying this model for prediction of cancer risk for genotoxic agents to the evaluation of cancer tests of acrylamide in rodents. (more) Publication Month: May 2001	Aug 28, 2002
	Scientific Committee on Food, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General, European Commission	Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Food on New Findings Regarding the Presence of Acrylamide in Food This document comments on the results of studies on acrylamide in food. It discusses estimated dietary intakes of acrylamide, toxicological properties, and risk estimates. It also describes future research needs in this area. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2002	Aug 6, 2002
	Scientific Committee for Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment, European Commission	Opinion on the Results of the Risk Assessment of: ACRYLAMIDE (Human Health and the Environment) . . . This report critically examines the conclusions of a risk assessment on acrylamide. Publication Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2001	Aug 6, 2002
	Ruden, Christina	Principles and Practices of Health Risk Assessment under Current EU Regulations Article discussing the European Union risk assessment process for chemicals and related principles and issues. Case studies that compare risk assessments performed for trichloroethylene and acrylamide and associated expert and public consensus on each chemical's carcinogenicity are also presented. Access to the full text from this site may require subscription or purchase. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Publication Month: February 2006	Feb 15, 2006
	Toda, M.; Uneyama, C.; Yamamoto, M.; Morikawa, K.	[Recent Trends in Evaluating Risk Associated with Acrylamide in Foods -- Focus on a New Approach (MOE) to Risk Assessment by JECFA] Abstract of a report from the 64th meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), in which Margin of Exposure (MOE) was discussed as a new approach to the risk assessment of acrylamide in foods. The original article is in Japanese. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 Publication Year: 2005	Mar 22, 2006
		Risk Assessment of Acrylamide Draft report of an assessment of the risk from exposure to acrylamide due to environmental, occupational, and other exposures (but not primarily exposure from food consumption). The final European Union Risk Assessment Report is available here. (more) Publication Month: October 2000	Aug 6, 2002
	Dybing, E.; Sanner, T.	Risk Assessment of Acrylamide in Foods Assessment of the lifetime cancer risk to humans from acrylamide intake from food and coffee. The abstract is freely available online, but access to full text requires subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, June 12, 2003	Oct 20, 2003
	Matthys, C., et al.	Risk Assessment of Dietary Acrylamide Intake in Flemish Adolescents Report of a study to assess dietary exposure to and health risks from acrylamide in Flemish adolescents. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Month: February 2005	Jan 3, 2005
	Zhang, Yu; Fang, Haoran; Zhang, Ying	Study on Formation of Acrylamide under Low-moisture Asparagine-sugar Reaction System Report of a study on formation of acrylamide under three asparagine-sugar low-moisture systems (asparagine-glucose system, asparagine-fructose system and asparagine-sucrose system) were analyzed by the response surface methodology (RSM) and orthogonal array methodology (OAM) in the present work. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Date: Monday, November 12, 2007	Dec 14, 2007
	German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment	Two Years Acrylamide - A Stocktaking from the Risk Assessment Angle BfR opinion that addresses issues related to acrylamide in foods, including formation and detection, acrylamide from feedstuffs, exposure, risk, and opportunities for reduction. A German-language version is also available online. (more) Publication Date: Friday, March 19, 2004	Aug 4, 2004
	German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment	Updating the Risk Assessment of Acrylamide in Foods BfR opinion that discusses factors in the risk assessment of acrylamide, including harmful effects of acrylamide, exposure, cancer risk, and differences between statistical and individual risk. The document is available in German. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, November 28, 2002	Aug 4, 2004
	Madle, S.; Broschinski, L.; Mosbach-Schulz, O.; Schöning, G.; Schulte, A.	Zur aktuellen Risikobewertung von Acrylamid in Lebensmitteln = On the Current Risk Assessment of Acrylamide in Food This report discusses human exposure to and risk assessment of acrylamide in foods. Access to the full text from this site requires subscription. However, the article (in German) may be accessed in full text from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment's Acrylamide page. (more) Publication Year: 2003	Jun 6, 2003

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