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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @12:57AM (2 children)
Everything doesn't cause cancer, but the list of things that appear to cause cancer in a laboratory setting is long enough that most of these warnings are pointless. And in many cases the dosage necessary to get cancer isn't even realistically possible without going to significant effort to up the dosage.
These warning stickers do little to protect people from real harm as they're on so many different products that nobody really pays much attention to them. Warning labels should be reserved for substances that have a much higher likelihood of causing cancer than anything in coffee.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @08:31AM (1 child)
I disagree in this specific instance. The risk is real. Labs are a simulation of the outside world... they have their limitations but are the next best thing to experimenting on humans.
The stickers should also attach to crisps and fries, and if necessary, bread. We forget how new and unsafe these foods are. I write, having just plowed through my McChicken Meal. I am leaving behind half my fries, the batter on my crispy chicken, half a bun and most of the cone of my soft serve cone. And I am having McDonalds for the first time in six months.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by shortscreen on Saturday March 31 2018, @10:08AM
Humans cook their food. This is a feature, not a bug.
And eat the rest of your fries. There are starving children in Yemen, you know.