Coffee sold in California must carry cancer warning, judge rules
Coffee sold in California must carry a cancer warning, a court has ruled. The judge in Los Angeles said Starbucks and about 90 other coffee sellers had failed to warn customers about a potentially toxic compound that is produced during the roasting process.
The firms were sued by a California-based non profit-group over the chemical acrylamide. The group argued that as acrylamide is regarded as carcinogenic under state law, it should be sold with a warning.
Ruling in favour of the Council for Education and Research on Toxics, Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said the companies should not be exempt from the law, as they had failed to prove that the "consumption of coffee confers a benefit to human health". The companies have until 10 April to appeal the decision.
Also at The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by bradley13 on Friday March 30 2018, @08:41PM (7 children)
Of course, if everything carries a warning, they become meaningless.
More to the point, apparently all of the difficult problems have been solved, if they have time for crap like this.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 4, Funny) by MostCynical on Friday March 30 2018, @09:30PM (4 children)
hammers. Hammers cause injury or death in 100% of tests involving hitting people on the head.
Hanmers need warning labels!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @10:27PM
Hammers? Sheesh, what about the overwhelming danger of toothpicks?
Eh fuckit, I'm turning my house inside out.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday March 30 2018, @10:31PM
"warning: only use with calibrated zombies"
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:28PM
Humans are dangerous. There should be a warning label attached to them right at birth! ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:11PM
Defective hammers, however, don’t.
Conclusion
Make all items defective. No need for warning specific items. Stuff will break faster. Those that can afford it will buy new defective shit (not the recently out of work and not retrained safety warning who are now homeless). Profit.
Campaign in 2020 for the out of work safety peeps. (Coal miners are so 10s). But under no circumstances should you retrain the newest homeless class. Jesus won’t tolerate those who can’t help themselves. Damn lazy fucks. Gees Louise!!!
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 30 2018, @10:38PM (1 child)
That sounds like a racist statement to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:17PM
Jesus was a nazi race hater, no?
If not, why are you?