Proposed mechanisms from JIFSAN, FRI, WHO and other groups focused on the possibility of oil degradation products such as acrylic acid and/or acrolein reacting with ammonia (formed in the Maillard reaction) to form acrylamide, however, these proposed mechanisms have not been successfully confirmed by experiments in various labs. The difficulty lies in the formation of the amide bond. However, there are two amino acids that have amide bonds already in their side chain – asparagine and glutamine. And amino acids typically undergo decarboxylation (loss of CO2) and deamination (loss of NH2) reactions, at typically cooking conditions in the presence of reducing sugars, resulting in the formation of aroma molecules. Thus it is reasonable to predict asparagine, and possible glutamine, would form acrylamide. To test this, our laboratory developed a model food system similar to a potato chip.