date:Feb 13, 2014
azodicarbonamide is baked, two other suspicious chemicals form.
One is called semicarbazide and that caused cancers in mice, she told Food Safety News, but its carcinogenicity in humans is not classifiable, and Lefferts thinks it poses a negligible risk.
The second breakdown product, however, is urethane, which is a recognized carcinogen, she said. The levels that form in bread [containing 45 milligrams per kilogram of azodicarbonamide] do pose a small cancer risk. Its small but its not negli