Europe decides to get rid of acrylamide while we argue about soft drinks

Cooking, fast and slow
Blogus scientificus by Alex Reshanov, earthsky.org

Euro­peans are so fash­ion for­ward. While peo­ple in the U.S. are still bick­er­ing over soft drink sizes and calo­rie label­ing for Big Macs, the Euro­pean Union is already tack­ling a chem­i­cal many of us have never heard of: acry­lamide. The…

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