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Tue 11 Nov 2002Lure of chips and crisps may spell dangerThe presence of a possible cancer-causing chemical in crisps and chips is closely associated with the very process which makes such foods attractive to us, scientists have found.Acrylamide, which is known to produce cancer in animals and is suspected of being a human carcinogen too, is formed in food, especially potato and cereals, as a result of high-temperature cooking.