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posted by chromas on Friday March 30 2018, @08:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the post-contains-comments-known-to-the-State-of-California-to-cause-cancer-or-reproductive-toxicity dept.

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 insanumingenium on Friday March 30 2018, @08:49PM (13 children)

    by insanumingenium (4824) on Friday March 30 2018, @08:49PM (#660528) Journal

    TFA states that the minimum dose for adverse effects is 425 times the average adult dose of coffee. If accurate, that seems pretty safe to me. How exactly does a human consume hundreds of times the average dose of coffee, google suggests the average amount is 2.1 drinks per day in the US. If the minimum amount to see adverse effects is almost 900 a day, I think we are going to be OK, even Phillip J Fry only managed 100 before hitting hyperspeed.

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  • (Score: 2) by Booga1 on Friday March 30 2018, @08:59PM (1 child)

    by Booga1 (6333) on Friday March 30 2018, @08:59PM (#660531)

    You'll die of hyponatremia [wikipedia.org] first.

    • (Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Friday March 30 2018, @09:20PM

      by insanumingenium (4824) on Friday March 30 2018, @09:20PM (#660538) Journal

      Unless you salt your coffee. Can you imagine a normal saline drib brewed coffee? Or did we read recently Ringer's lactate was a better choice.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @08:59PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @08:59PM (#660532)

    Holy carp! Wouldn't we have to worry about cardiac health before cancer then?

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday March 30 2018, @09:07PM (8 children)

      by frojack (1554) on Friday March 30 2018, @09:07PM (#660535) Journal

      Nope. You may well have MORE cardiac issues following this Judge's orders than not.

      3 to 5 Cups of Coffee a Day May Lower Risk of Heart Attacks!!!
      https://www.livescience.com/50012-coffee-heart-attack-risk.html [livescience.com]

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      • (Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Friday March 30 2018, @09:16PM (6 children)

        by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Friday March 30 2018, @09:16PM (#660536)

        I think the anonymous person was referring to what would happen if you drank enough coffee to reach the 425 threshold in one day, several hundred cups' worth. That probably would kill you, caffeine is toxic in high enough concentrations.

        The problem with studies that indicate coffee aids health is that the people funding them have a financial incentive to find anything. If they conduct 30 studies and 29 find no positive relationship between coffee intake and health, they just dump the 29 studies and shout the one that seemed to work from the rooftops. That doesn't automatically mean the study is invalid, but don't take it at face value.

        • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @10:30PM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @10:30PM (#660568)

          > If they conduct 30 studies and 29 find no positive relationship between coffee intake and health, they just dump the 29 studies and shout the one that seemed to work from the rooftops.

          https://www.xkcd.com/882/ [xkcd.com]

          • (Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 30 2018, @10:42PM (4 children)

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday March 30 2018, @10:42PM (#660577) Homepage

            The state of California has labeled XKCD carcinogenic due to its lack of trans, undocumented, or HIV-positive characters as well as for its being criminally unfunny.

            • (Score: 2) by pipedwho on Saturday March 31 2018, @05:32AM (3 children)

              by pipedwho (2032) on Saturday March 31 2018, @05:32AM (#660735)

              I’m not even sure xkcd is supposed to be funny. It’s more about pointing out something obvious that otherwise alludes the reasoning of people that don’t think critically.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:01AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:01AM (#660737)

                I emailed your comment to Munroe.

              • (Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:14PM

                by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:14PM (#660846)

                Some are informative, some are just odd, some are hilarious.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:29PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:29PM (#660913)

                Not every person ponders the vagueries of reality like xkcd.

      • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday March 30 2018, @10:29PM

        by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 30 2018, @10:29PM (#660566) Journal

        Which makes it interesting that he ruled

        they had failed to prove that the "consumption of coffee confers a benefit to human health".

        Possibly they needed better lawyers.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday March 30 2018, @11:31PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday March 30 2018, @11:31PM (#660607)

    How exactly does a human consume hundreds of times the average dose of coffee

    Expresso!

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