date:Dec 17, 2013
py for cancer treatment. Howevver the Cancer Council of Australia has cautioned consumers about using apricot kernels as an alternative therapy.
There have been reports of poisoning incidents in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom and Europe from eating raw apricot kernels.
In 2011 a consumer in Queensland was hospitalised after consuming raw apricot kernels with high levels of hydrocyanic acid. At the time, FSANZ warned consumers not to consume raw apricot kernels.
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