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: 2) by Snotnose on Friday March 30 2018, @08:45PM (1 child)
has been found to cause cancer. Too bad you've already read it.
Seriously, I've been in CA for over 50 years now and it's getting embarrassing.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @12:54AM
It's gotten to the point where so many things carry that label that nobody pays any attention to them.
Those labels should really be limited to situations where the chemicals represent a significant risk of cancer, not just a possible link in some cases, but we don't know why sort of risk. Same goes for all those warning labels and those "hot" dishes that get served at restaurants.
I wind up touching them anyways because I need to know if they're really hot so that I know whether or not to expect to be burned if I accidentally touch them later. And in all the years I've been doing it, I don't think that in more than a handful of cases has the dish even been uncomfortably warm.