azodicarbonamide
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azodicarbonamide
noun azodicarbonamides
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An organic chemical, a yellow to orange red, odorless, crystalline powder, used in the food industry as a food additive, flour bleaching agent and improving agent, and in foaming plastics.
Azodicarbonamide partially breaks down on heating into semicarbazide, which has shown some indications of causing cancer (in animal at high doses). Is it harmful in foods? That's an interesting and important question. Reasonable people differ on the subject. It should be looked into. But the fact th
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title = {azodicarbonamide},
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