Aug 27 : Acrylamide, a chemical compound found in coffee, French fries and many other foods doesn’t cause breast cancer.

The scare started in 2002 when a study showed that acrylamide, which had been shown to cause cancers in animals, could form in a range of foods while they are being cooked.

However, a new research by a team of scientists le by Lorelei Mucci at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston has given the compound the all clear at least for breast cancer.

The findings were based on a 20-year study of 100,000 nurses in the US, reports the New Scientist.

“At levels in the diet, it doesn’t seem to cause breast cancer,” the publication quoted Mucci, as saying.

Mucci presented her the study’s results at the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston earlier this week. (ANI)