Americans may have plenty of reasons to fear French fries. While they are one of the country's favorite foods, they are soaked with trans fats, loaded with sodium and full of simple carbs, the bad kind. And, it turns out, they are also full of a chemical called acrylamide, which is known to cause cancer in laboratory rats and mice.

California wants to put a "...contains a substance known to the state of California..." label on french fries and potato chips. At the rate they're going, before much longer, every object in the state of California will bear such a label :/

California Wants to Serve a Warning With Fries - New York Times