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 Virindi on Saturday March 31 2018, @01:28AM (2 children)
I say do it. It will only serve to demonstrate to people who ridiculous the law is.
Everything sold in CA should have a cancer warning. I mean, surely there is ONE molecule in there somewhere that kinda maybe causes cancer if a rat is fed its body weight in that molecule...
It makes no difference, right, that no causal link can be demonstrated at the levels found in the product?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:45PM (1 child)
Somebody should make a study that shows exposure to warning labels might cause cancer. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @10:05PM
Warning: The adhesive on the back of this warning label may cause cancer.