Researchers at the University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville have recently found a link between a toxic compound found in smoke, benzopyrene, and the manufacturing of cholesterol.

The city may set a legal limit for a cancer-causing chemical found recently in cooking oil sold by local suppliers, the health minister says. Secretary for Food and Health Dr Ko Wing-man told ...

The way in which hazardous organic substances such as benzopyrene get into human cells, their impact and how they are dispersed is another topic that scientists at the UFZ are also investigating ...

Chemical compounds in tobacco smoke alter the DNA of lung cells in ways that can lead to cancer in the longer term. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now been able to precisely localise such changes for ...

The health authorities have ordered Nongshim to recall six of its instant noodle brands as small amounts of a cancer-causing substance have been detected in them. Officials of the Korea Food and Drug ...

Two more cooking oil samples have been found to contain a cancer-causing substance at levels higher than the European Union or mainland limit. The findings come a week after four out of 39 oil samples ...

A representative of a South Korean instant noodle company in China told the Global Times Monday that their product on sale in Beijing does not contain a cancer-causing agent. Despite this, most ...

Test results on noodles produced by South Korea’s Nongshim Co that were reported to contain traces of benzopyrene and were recalled in South Korea last month, showed low levels of benzopyrene that ...

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