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Is Decaf coffee safe to drink? Experts weigh in on claims by health advocacy groups
CNN HEALTH ^ | 04/05/24 | Kristen Rogers

Posted on 04/05/2024 12:43:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

For people avoiding caffeine, decaf coffee seems like a harmless option. But some health advocacy groups that argue otherwise are petitioning the US Food and Drug Administration to ban a key chemical involved in the decaffeination process due to cancer concerns.

That chemical is methylene chloride, a colorless liquid that’s used in certain industrial processes, “including paint stripping, pharmaceutical manufacturing, paint remover manufacturing, and metal cleaning and degreasing,” according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Methylene chloride has long been known to be a carcinogen, designated as such by the National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program, the Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization, said Dr. Maria Doa, senior director of chemical policy for the Environmental Defense Fund, one of five groups and individuals behind two food and color additive petitions sent to the FDA in November.

The FDA filed the petitions to its docket for consideration on December 21 and accepted public comments on the filing notice through March 11.

“ In addition to being carcinogenic, methylene chloride can cause other health harms, such as liver toxicity and at higher exposures neurological effects, and in some cases death,” Doa added via email. These risks are in the context of external acute exposure to high levels of the chemical, or ingestion of the chemical on its own, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: cancer; coffee; decaf; decafcoffee; safety
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1 posted on 04/05/2024 12:43:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

About as useful as non alcoholic beer


2 posted on 04/05/2024 12:45:21 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: SeekAndFind

always gave me the jitters. and tasted awful. something about chlorinated hydrocarbons?


3 posted on 04/05/2024 12:46:27 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: xoxox

trichloroethane, was it?


4 posted on 04/05/2024 12:46:46 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a lot safer than most municipal water supplies.


5 posted on 04/05/2024 12:47:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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6 posted on 04/05/2024 12:52:32 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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To: SeekAndFind

I was in a hotel lobby. The desk clerk was putting a new pot of coffee out. I asked him how much decaf he goes through. He told me that he puts out a full pot in the morning, and dumps out a full pot every afternoon.


7 posted on 04/05/2024 12:55:38 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lots of Swiss water purification out there...Try GEVALIA...........


8 posted on 04/05/2024 12:56:04 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: SeekAndFind

NO , it has NO caffeine


9 posted on 04/05/2024 12:57:12 PM PDT by butlerweave
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yes it does

Decaf coffee is not completely caffeine-free. The decaffeination process removes at least 97% of caffeine, but virtually all decaf coffees still contain around 7 mg per 8-ounce (236-ml) cup1. Decaf coffee usually contains about 3 mg of caffeine per cup, but can contain up to 7 mg2. Decaf coffee has roughly 2 to 15 mg of caffeine per cup (237 ml)3. Decaf coffee from Starbucks contains 15–30 mg of caffeine, depending on cup size4. Decaf black tea usually contains about 2 to 10 mg of caffeine5.


10 posted on 04/05/2024 1:00:28 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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To: Hambone 1934

Does Gevalia have decaf?

I drink two cups of half-caf every morning, and my cardiologist says that’s one cup of coffee and OK for me. I like two cups, listen to radio with cat on my lap every morning and don’t want to change that. (She’s seriously b@tchy the rest of the day.)


11 posted on 04/05/2024 1:01:11 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: xoxox
trichloroethane, was it?

Close. Methylene chloride is a common name for dichloromethane.

12 posted on 04/05/2024 1:04:33 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Hambone 1934

Answered my own question, put a pound of Gevalia Decaf in my AMZ cart.


13 posted on 04/05/2024 1:05:19 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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She’s seriously b@tchy the rest of the day.

Sounds like you're not sharing your coffee with her.

14 posted on 04/05/2024 1:05:22 PM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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LOL, coffee is not what she needs, a tranquilizer might work. She’s on my desk right now, glaring, which means I give her some crunchies or she bites.


15 posted on 04/05/2024 1:08:45 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: SeekAndFind
I like caffeinated coffee in the morning, and de-caf in the evening.

My decaf brand? Tasters' Choice, which uses the Swiss water process, and no chlorinated solvents.

16 posted on 04/05/2024 1:10:34 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ping in your cup.


17 posted on 04/05/2024 1:16:03 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SeekAndFind

I extracted caffeine from a pound of tea in chemistry class once. I remember it was fun.


18 posted on 04/05/2024 1:16:27 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Veto!

19 posted on 04/05/2024 1:27:36 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: Seaplaner

Yummie!


20 posted on 04/05/2024 1:59:18 PM PDT by xoxox
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