New EU Rules dictate chips must be cooked paler
 

I remember now why I and 17.4 Million people voted to leave the EU.

This is bloody ridiculous.

https://news.sky.com/story/new-eu-fo...chips-11150075

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Life is a cancer risk, what next, regulations to limit that ? :erm:

Logan's Run, here we come.

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Life isn’t officially considered a carcinogen

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no but the EU should be

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Quite unlikely tbh.

I guess there are two questions I would have:

1) How strong is the link to cancer and is it worth the golden colour for the chip?
2) Would the UK food safety agency also ban it anyway? If the EU are there is a good chance we would too

While I don’t know in this case I like the fact there are organisations that research these things. While obvious things are unhealthy , like alcohol, which we can choose to have or or I would have no idea about the ingredient of a chip.

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Cook them yourself. Then you can thumb your nose at the loony rules.

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two questions i ask
1 does it taste good
2 what booze goes with it

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"Colour is flavour" and I don't want bland food foisted on me by some bureaucrat who is doing it "for my own good".

---------- Post added at 19:08 ---------- Previous post was at 19:03 ----------

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...2A_carcinogens

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Really ?

I'm pretty sure there is a very strong link, dead people dont ever seem to get cancer, only the living.

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yes, getting old is one of the major cancer risks unfortunately.

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Not necessarily, tell this to my long term best friend, who have known since I was 5, his cousin of 42, she has just been given two weeks to live, not expected to make it to Christmas for her two young children. :(

Saying this, my younger brothers heart stopped beating when he was 3 when he was being operated on due to bowel cancer.

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Didn't one of the people who set this place up die young from cancer?

I rather look at this positively then negatively, same as the one that orders firms to supply sunscreen if employees are working outside

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Neil's friend (For those unfamiliar with the sites history from the beginning, Neil was original, ntl owned nthellworld.com Forum Admin, like me), I do believe. Long time ago, around 2004, if I have my year correct.

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Unfortunately I know that too well Mick. My son was diagnosed with testicular cancer at 17. Fortunately it's one of the most treatable cancers. He's fine, but it's been 5 years of scans, endless appointments, false alarms, that we could all have done without. It's screwed up his education more than anything.

There are cancer risks like age and genetics that we can do nothing about. But it makes sense to limit the lifestyle risks we can control, like diet, smoking, sunburn. An increasing number of people are going to get cancer in an ageing population, but not necessarily die from it. It'll soon be seen as a natural part of old age.

As for chips and the EU, I don't want to give either up ;)

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Cook your own chips,or biscuits or whatever. Problem/issue sorted.

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I would think most people already do that, if they are actually at home, I dont think thats really the point here.

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Life is a risk they will always find something that will kill us.

might have to turn into a "BREATHARIAN" in saying that I'm surprised the EU hasn't banned air due to the toxins we release into the atmosphere

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Can't see what the point is..There is only so much control that H&S can have over us..even they can't follow us around and force us to eat only that which is healthy.

Anyway we are leaving so it won't be any issue for us after 2019.

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In fairness they're not really banning unhealthy foods. You can still smoke, drink, eat pure sugar and fried food.

Instead it's more about removing hidden carcinogens from the food supply. At least with the obviously unhealthy food the customer can make a choice. Processed meats seem to be a carcinogen but because there you would have the ban them entirely and because it's quite obvious what it is then instead the agencies simply go down the route of informing customers they're a risk.

In this case it's harder to identify what acrylamide is and what it is in. It's a decision made before it gets to you and since it doesn't great impact the food itself other than the colour it's easier to ban.

Maybe not. This is just a food safety agency that's run at a European level. It's possible we might still use them rather than set up our own or we do set up our own and they largely take the same decisions at those at the EU.

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yes, the evil Eu trying to stop us getting cancer... We're British and we'll get the disease if we want it !

They'll be trying to stop drugs companies vastly overcharging us for cancer drugs next. Is there no end to their evil !
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c...hike-7698q36c3

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Investigating competition rules? How about charging them with mass murder because a drug that is life saving is being used to make mass profit instead.

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I'm with in you in spirit there Gavin ! If only life was so simple, however I guess they'd just stop making and researching new drugs altogether.

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The point is, they are creating stupid rules and laws, as usual.

Regardless that we are leaving, while we are still chained to them, we have to follow some of these new stupid laws, until the leave date.

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It's a modern curse sadly and the EU might be the worst but isn't alone in this. More rules/regulations/laws all of which add to the weight of bureaucracy and create a wonderful ongoing revenue stream for the various organisations charged with enforcing them, not to mention the lawyers who'll inevitably be handsomely paid for challenging their legality. Nice work if you can get it...

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What is stupid about a law aiming to limit the amount of a toxic compound that is also a potential carcinogen in food?

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The word that concerns me is 'potential'..there is a possibility..means there maybe a chance of getting cancer.

However it's not so hard and fast as long as it's possible,maybe,potential.

At least this article uses the phrase strong evidence.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/201...ay_a_21452232/

As we are living longer I suspect cancer will be on the increase whatever we consume.The only advice I will ever give about carcinogens is do not ever,ever smoke tobacco as that is a proven route to lung cancer.

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The relevant word is highlighted for you.

Any food can potentially harm you, should we just ban all food ?

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Water is on the official poisons list so better stick to the hard stuff.

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If we listened to the experts we would be having grass and water.

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If that food has been shown to be carcinogenic in animals as acrylamide has, then there would be some suspicion that it might be carcinogenic in humans. When it comes to chemical safety, you work on guilty until proven innocent.

I used to use acrylamide in the lab years ago and we were gloved and masked up due to potential carcinogenicity and the fact that it is a cumulative neurotoxin. It's nasty stuff.

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It's considered a 'probable' carcinogen.

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right now i'm having chips cooked in pork dripping to a more than golden color with extra dark crispy bits -cod -mushy peas heavily buttered brown bread and a mug of tea

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No more toast or fried bread in the greasy spoon?

The end of the Tandoori oven for Naan breads?

No more crumpets?

And what about all that dihydrogen oxide that is all over the place!?

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You're dead. :D

It's all soggy pap from now on.

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I think you mean dihydrogen monoxide, and yes, very dangerous stuff. :erm:

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

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Probably during the multi-year transition period as well. :)

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a few more years under the thumb must make your heart swell with joy ;)

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You've met 'er indoors then? ;)

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Keep feeding her the golden brown chips and biscuits is my advice

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;)