Cereal boxes cause cancer? Health authorities are downplaying European press reports to that effect after Swiss researchers found mineral oil in some recycled paperboard cartons. Researchers found “that the limit considered safe for mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH) (0.6 mg/kg), as set by the FAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, was ‘frequently exceeded’ by a factor of 10-100.” But, says the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, saying that cereal boxes cause cancer “is jumping to conclusions the researchers haven’t made.”
A couple of links you may want to check out…
Ben Miyares
http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/10/cereal-box-cancer-link-reports-underscore-lack-of-information-update/
http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/recycled-cereal-boxes-linked-cancer-not-concern-us-consumers-1435/
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