Poisonous parsnips?
NZPA Houston Many foods are known to ( be laced with toxic sub- '< stances. ; In most foods, however, j the amounts of natural toxins , are so small as to' be insigni- ( ficant to human health — , unless, of course, vast | amounts of the ..food are ( consumed at one time. ‘ . Now the parsnip has been ;
ndicted. Only this time, a iommon food . has been hown to contain substantial imounts of potentially harmul substances. They are called psoralens and can lamage genes, cause skin ■eactions in sunlight, and lecome potential cancer:ausihg agents after exposure to sunlight, according to scientists from a . United
States Department of Agriculture laboratory in College Station, Texas. When the . parsnip was peeled, psoralens in the vegetable were reduced by 30 per cent, but were still present in worrisome concentrations, the scientists reported in the August 21 issue of "Science.)**
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Press, 2 September 1981, Page 9
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