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Acrylamide is a compound that is produced when many foods, particularly starchy foods, are cooked – or more importantly ‘browned’. Acrylamide has been found both in processed foods and also in foods cooked at home. The acrylamide forms when a food is roasted, toasted, grilled, or fried. Foods implicated would be toasted bread; potatoes, whether fried (chips or crisps) or roasted; vegetables (roasted or fried as veggie crisps); or other starchy foods like biscuits or crackers. All these foods develop acrylamide during the cooking process due to the ‘Maillard reaction’ which is the reason these foods go brown.

A Tuam man who gardaí found buying heroin in a Dublin flat to sell to his friends in Galway has received a suspended jail sentence.

Almost 10,000 people in Mayo are being prescribed anti-depressants and anxiety pills under the General Medical Services Scheme, a new report has shown.

A Tuam man who was in a Dublin flat when gardaí raided it and caught another man bagging up heroin for street dealing has been remanded on bail pending sentence next February.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after veterinary drugs and products, considered “extremely dangerous” were taken in a burglary and the unauthorised taking of a vehicle in Loughrea at the weekend.

The number of heroin users in Westmeath engaging in a methadone programme has risen by almost 75 per cent in the last three years, it was revealed this week.

Heroin addicts in Westmeath can now look forward to massages and, ironically, acupuncture as part of a series of alternative therapies now available within the county.

Two men facing similar charges of possession of heroin with intent to supply received very different sentences in the District Court this week (November 17), after the amounts involved and their differing efforts at rehabilitation, were made known.

A Galway consultant has criticised the deportation of a seriously ill Nigerian woman describing it as a death sentence.

The HSE has unveiled a new national campaign on the dangers of legal and illegal drugs. The campaign is seeking to raise awareness of the dangers and significant negative mental and physical health effects that can be caused by these psychoactive substances.