Consuming grilled meat could harm the human body just as much as breathing in in car fumes according to a press release on the Oregon State University website.
"Some of the compounds that we've discovered are far more mutagenic than we previously understood, and may exist in the environment as a result of heavy air pollution from vehicles or some types of food preparation," Staci Simonich, a professor of chemistry and toxicology in the Oregon State College of Agricultural Sciences said in a statement. "We don't know at this point what levels may be present, and will explore that in continued research," Simonich said in a statement.
Scientists worked with parent compounds polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons also known as PAH's a press release reported. The combinations come from smoke from wood stoves, car engines, a power plant run on cigarette or coal fire the press release said. The PAH benzopyrene is a carcinogenic or cancer-causing antecedent, which scientists believe is more dangerous to people's health.
The researcher's study discovered the mutagenicity or mutagens in nitrogen PAH's in a single class of nitrogen goes up six to 432 times faster than its parent compound the press release reported. NPAH's in two nitrogen clusters are capable of going up from 272 to 467 in mutagenicity.
The numbers could be greater than they already area depending on how analysis is done. Mutagens or chemicals, harm a cell's DNA, and lead to cancer the press release reported.
Simonich is supervising Oregon's Mount Bachelor unhealthy amounts of air pollution to see if other capacities exist from its journey on the pacific ocean the press release reported. The 9,065 foot mountain sits in Oregon's Cascade Range
Scientists from the OSU College of Science, the University of California-Riverside, Texas A&M University, and Peking University worked together on the findings the press release reported.
