mechanistic
Analysis v1
When you bake things with a certain food additive called diazodicarbonamide, it breaks down into two harmful chemicals—semicarbazide and urethane—that have been shown in animals to damage DNA and cause cancer.
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The study looked at a tiny amount of one chemical (semicarbazide) made when heating a sealing material, and found it’s probably not harmful — but the claim says two harmful chemicals are made, and this study didn’t even check one of them.
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