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.
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No, but maybe lovers of Joe should...
Tax it. That’ll solve their problem; so no more fried coffee for you.
All this stress and congestion causes cancer.
Just an excuse to restrict its sales to adults AND tax the hell out of it to ‘protect the children’....................
Yet another “known to the State of California to cause cancer” label. Good grief.
And aren’t there a lot of Californians out there who believe that coffee enemas cure cancer?
“Tax it.”
The obvious next step.
Everyone who believes anything “the State of in California” says should immediately fly in to a blind panic and run around in ever enlargening circles at top speed until they trip over something or run into something that knocks them unconscious.
I’m sitting here taking an occasional sip of my coffee, and somehow I don’t feel any panic.
Come and take it from my cold, dead hands, you creepy lawyers!!!
Coffee sold OUTSIDE California, of course, carries no danger of contracting cancer from the drinking of no more than seven cups a day.
If you are drinking more than seven cups a day, you will be wound up so tight that cancer couldn’t get a foothold in your body anyway. You’ll explode long before any cancer would have an effect.
Any correlation between real science and California dimbulbcrats existeth not.
No, but maybe lovers of Joe should...
This is probably another attach a warning and then collect tax money for the problem from the coffee merchants at all levels and us.
Wonder if they’ll inspect cars for out of state coffee.
My siblings, cousins and I, like our parents started drinking our morning coffee with our parents as teenagers, and they did with their parents.
No cancers yet and most of us made it into our 80’s or close to it including our parents and grandparents.
No telling how many car/vehicle accidents were avoided by having a cup of coffee when needed before driving or during a needed coffee break while driving.
I can’t drink my Starbux frappucinno without a straw, anyway.
Oh, noes! There goes Starbucks!!!!
Proudly here to say I’ve never walked into a Starbucks and ordered one of their over price mocha latte whatevers.
I’m drinking a cup of lemon/honey/fresh ginger tea. Yeah, that probably also causes some sort of disease.
When I was a little bitty toddler, I’d get up early with grandpa and we’d have coffee together. His was straight black (lived into his 90s and no cancer). Mine was 99% milk. Good memories.
He later added, "But with significantly more government funding, we can certainly determine the justification for additional funds."
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