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.
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About as useful as non alcoholic beer
always gave me the jitters. and tasted awful. something about chlorinated hydrocarbons?
trichloroethane, was it?
It’s a lot safer than most municipal water supplies.
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.
Lots of Swiss water purification out there...Try GEVALIA...........
NO , it has NO caffeine
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.
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.)
Close. Methylene chloride is a common name for dichloromethane.
Answered my own question, put a pound of Gevalia Decaf in my AMZ cart.
Sounds like you're not sharing your coffee with her.
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.
My decaf brand? Tasters' Choice, which uses the Swiss water process, and no chlorinated solvents.
Ping in your cup.
I extracted caffeine from a pound of tea in chemistry class once. I remember it was fun.
Yummie!
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