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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @08:59PM (9 children)
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)
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]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Friday March 30 2018, @09:16PM (6 children)
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)
> 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)
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)
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
I emailed your comment to Munroe.
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:14PM
Some are informative, some are just odd, some are hilarious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:29PM
Not every person ponders the vagueries of reality like xkcd.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday March 30 2018, @10:29PM
Which makes it interesting that he ruled
Possibly they needed better lawyers.
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