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Consumer group finds cancer-causing chemical in colas
Los Angeles Times ^ | March 6, 2012 | By Eryn Brown

Posted on 03/06/2012 12:42:28 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

In a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest called on officials to ban the use of caramel coloring in popular soft drinks, citing a possible cancer risk.

This isn’t the first time that CSPI has targeted the food additive that gives colas, including Coke and Pepsi, their familiar brown color.

But the far bigger worry for soda drinkers remains high-fructose corn syrup and other sugars used in soft drinks. "Soda drinkers are much more likely than non-soda drinkers to develop weight gain, obesity, diabetes and other health problems," CSPI's statement explained.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cancer; caramelcoloring; cola; cspi; failure; nannystate; socialism
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Light bulbs, toilets, soda pop ...
1 posted on 03/06/2012 12:42:38 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More BS....

” Left wingers cause strokes in otherwise normal people....details at 11. “


2 posted on 03/06/2012 12:45:30 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, for heaven’s sake! Walking around in the sunshine can cause cancer.


3 posted on 03/06/2012 12:46:07 PM PST by RexBeach (Mr. Obama Can't Count.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In honor of the findings of this “consumer group” ,I’m going to slam a 2 liter bottle of Coke Zero.


4 posted on 03/06/2012 12:46:15 PM PST by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More unadulterated slop from the Center for Socialism in the Public Interest.


5 posted on 03/06/2012 12:46:23 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

chicken, eggs, caffeine ...

This could be a very long list.


6 posted on 03/06/2012 12:46:23 PM PST by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Would this be possible should we get a Republican Pres, Senate, and Congress? —> an END to these idiotic studies ... PERIOD...


7 posted on 03/06/2012 12:47:30 PM PST by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As Rush would say, “Follow the money.”


8 posted on 03/06/2012 12:48:28 PM PST by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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>> ” Left wingers cause strokes in otherwise normal people....”

ROFL! Ain’t THAT the truth...


9 posted on 03/06/2012 12:48:44 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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“cancer causing” and “possible cancer risk” are two completely different things.

Just about everything is a possbile cancer risk according to the ambulance chasers and leftist do-gooders.


10 posted on 03/06/2012 12:48:44 PM PST by Reaganez
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To: RexBeach

It does????!!!!!


11 posted on 03/06/2012 12:50:15 PM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...Yeah and the Phosphoric acid......


12 posted on 03/06/2012 12:50:42 PM PST by spokeshave (Dole/McCain/Romney losers all....NEWT is da Man)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is why I only drink beer.


13 posted on 03/06/2012 12:51:11 PM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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Center for Science in the Public Interest

Why did I know it was them?

The FDA should automatically file their letters in the circular file and have their emails set to go to Junk e-mail.


14 posted on 03/06/2012 12:52:12 PM PST by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘citing a possible cancer risk’—

POSSIBLE...

so why does the title say- finds cancer link???


15 posted on 03/06/2012 12:52:28 PM PST by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Liberals have been around forever - what I wonder is why to we listen to them today? Seems America did not listen to them for 200 years and now everyday, in every way they get the headlines.


16 posted on 03/06/2012 12:52:41 PM PST by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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Light bulbs, toilets, soda pop

And just where would this contraband be located?

17 posted on 03/06/2012 12:53:24 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Time to add this to my CSPI idiocy list:

"Chinese food: the new yellow peril"
"movie popcorn: kernels of death"
"fried chicken: heart attack with a beak"
"Food Porn: Mayonnaise Money Shot"
"the Bugermeister Meisterburger toyless Sadness Meal"

18 posted on 03/06/2012 12:56:03 PM PST by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t forget DDT. Which has been shown to be harmless.


19 posted on 03/06/2012 12:59:38 PM PST by RC2
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To: Paved Paradise

You’ve heard of skin cancer? Hmmmm?


20 posted on 03/06/2012 12:59:38 PM PST by RexBeach (Mr. Obama Can't Count.)
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