FDA staggers along on beer hazard
1979
Jacobson, Michael
On August 30, 1978, the U.S. Brewers Association informed the FDA that certain beers contained low levels of the animal carcinogen, nitrosamines. Eight months later FDA conducted its own tests of 30 brands, discovering that all but Coors and Guinness Stout contained nitrosamines. However, FDA neither released the data nor cracked down on the brewers. Germans have already modified their techniques to inhibit nitrosamine formation. Americans ingest about 20 times more nitrosamine from beer than from bacon, largely because more beer than bacon is consumed. Nevertheless, as of October, 1979, FDA had still done nothing to clean up beer.
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