California Food Police

First you couldn't eat a french fry on the D.C. subway (an unwise policy D.C. quickly retracted). Now, California's attorney general is suing french fry and potato chip makers...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued nine fast-food giants yesterday, saying the law requires them to tell the public their potato chips and French fries contain a toxic chemical.

The "toxic chemical" in question, acrylamide, occurs naturally in all starchy foods when they are cooked at high heat.

Lawsuit filed over labeling potato chips and French fries