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27 Aug 2005

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ConsumerAffairs.Com

California Sues to Require Cancer Warnings on Potato Chips and French Fries - Action Against Nine Firms Says Warnings Required by Proposition 65 [USA]

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed suit against nine manufacturers of potato chips and french fries, seeking a court order that will require the firms to warn consumers that some of their food products contain acrylamide, a chemical known by the state to cause cancer...The defendants in the lawsuit are: • Burger King Corporation, french fries • Cape Cod Potato Chips, Inc./Lance, Inc. (parent company), Cape Cod potato chips • Frito-Lay, Inc./PepsiCo, Inc., Lay's potato chips/Lay's baked potato chips • H.J. Heinz, Inc., Ore-Ida frozen potato products • Kettle Foods, Inc., Kettle Chips • KFC Corporation [part of Yum!], KFC Potato Wedges • McDonald's Corporation, french fries • Procter & Gamble Distributing Co./Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co., Pringles • Wendy's International, Inc., french fries