'Cooked fats' linked to cancers

Women who eat crisps or chips every day may double their chances of ovarian or womb cancer, say scientists.
The fears surround acrylamides, chemicals produced when you fry, grill or roast a wide range of foods.

Dutch researchers quizzed 120,000 people on their eating habits, and found that women who ate more acrylamide appeared more at risk.

UK experts say other factors could be to blame, and urged women there was not need to panic.

More: BBC NEWS | Health | 'Cooked fats' linked to cancers

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Acrylamide ... new word?

Here the big bad component is "partially hydrogenated oil" which is found in all sorts of processed foods and is especially found in fried foods since that requires oil to be heated to very high temperatures.

But I've never heard of acrylamides. Are these naturally occurring chemicals (such as the recombination of molecules that happens when oil is superheated)? Or additives?

Edit: Actually reading the article kind of helped. Sounds similar to the warnings put out in the US several years ago about burning foods on the grill, esp. meats, because the charred parts were full of carcinogens.

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