Grief memoirs: The familiarity of helping professionals with the genre and its potential incorporation into grief therapy.

The grief memoir is a fast-developing genre that in recent decades has become a popular form of public mourning and self-therapy in many Western cultures, especially in the United States and Great Britain. We surveyed 76 helping professionals to assess if the grief memoir is a genre with which they are familiar and whether they employ such narratives as an adjunct in their work with the bereaved. Most bibliotherapeutic studies focus either on self-help or affective literature.

[Determination of acrylamide content in potato products using GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS methods].

The aim of our study was to check a useful of GCQ-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS methods to determination of acrylamide in foodstuffs and determined acrylamide content in potato products randomly collected in Poland in 2007-2008. As a result of validation of these methods we found the both using methods were characterized by low quantification limit and well precision. The highest acrylamide level was in potato crisps--770 microg/kg (113 divided by 1890 microg/kg), but the lowest--was in French fries collected from bars and restaurants--401 microg/kg (134 divided by 679 microg/kg).

[The estimation of the influence of various methods of thermal processing on acrylamide level in potato chips].

The aim of our study was to examine influence of thermal processing conditions on acrylamide concentration in potato chips ready to eat which were preparing from different varieties of pre-cooked potato chips. Relation between colour of potato chips and acrylamide content was also examined. Acrylamide concentration in potato chips ready to eat ranged from 292 to 1534 microg/kg.