Posted on 02/01/2018 10:07:54 AM PST by BenLurkin
The lawsuit, first filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2010, was brought against a number of companies by a nonprofit group called the Council for Education and Research on Toxics (CERT), CNN reported Wednesday.
The suit alleges that chains such as Starbucks and 7-Eleven "failed to provide clear and reasonable warning" to patrons that coffee contains levels of a suspected carcinogen known as acrylamide.
Acrylamide is a chemical that's often linked to cooked foods, such as French fries, baked goods and breakfast cereals. But the science on its cancer-causing potential has been mixed.
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"Acrylamide is one of the most commonly found contaminants in food," explained Dr. Ken Spaeth, chief of environmental medicine at Northwell Health in Manhasset, N.Y. "It is created when carbohydrates -- starchy foods -- are baked, fried, roasted or toasted. Relatively high concentrations of acrylamide can be found in everyday items such as coffee, bread and French fries."
That said, "the full extent of any cancer risk from acrylamide is currently not clear," Spaeth added. And he noted that other studies have supported coffee's real benefits to health.
"The situation with coffee is muddied by the fact that there is evidence that regular coffee drinking may be protective against certain types of cancer, which is theorized to be a result of the high levels of antioxidants in coffee," Spaeth said. ...
In the meantime, 13 of the defendants in the lawsuit have settled and agreed to post the coffee warnings in their outlets, the latest to do so being 7-Eleven. Final mediation on the case is set for Feb. 8, Metzger said, and a judge is scheduled to reach a final decision on the lawsuit sometime in 2018, according to CNN.
(Excerpt) Read more at consumer.healthday.com ...
Somebody should lodge a law suit against California and their government for all of the pollution in the densely populated cities. They knew decades ago that there would be a problem.
I felt like I was reaching adulthood, when my parents let me have a cup of coffee with them in the morning with breakfast.
Then to listen to their adult parent talk about what had happened and what would probably happen later. I learned to listen to what adults said. Learning one of my life’s most important skills.
It’s only the first step to putting a very high tax on it. They know that many people, me included, will not give up our java - over my cold, dead hands.
There are so many things that cause cancer in California but don’t seem to cause it elsewhere that California must be the cause.
Maybe they just mean coffee in huge amounts. Or maybe the way it was roasted?
(Never giving up mine — ever!)
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