Posted on 03/01/2006 9:09:08 PM PST by tbird5
RACES of a carcinogenic chemical have been found in soft drinks at eight times the level permitted in drinking water, it was revealed last night.
Tests conducted on 230 drinks on sale in Britain and France have identified high levels of benzene, a compound known to cause cancer, according to the Food Standards Agency. There is a legal limit of one part per billion of benzene in British drinking water. The latest tests revealed levels of up to eight parts per billion in some soft drinks.
Benzene has been linked to leukaemia and other cancers of the blood. Traces found in Perrier water 15 years ago led to the withdrawal of more than 160 million bottles worldwide. The disclosure has prompted food safety campaigners to demand that the Government reveal which products contain benzene. At present, the drinks’ identities have not been revealed.
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Now when I drink beer with every meal, I can say it's for health reasons.
Now when people tell me smoking causes cancer, I can say that the soft drink they are drinking will give them cancer.
I want everyone to know that today I ate and drink two items that do not cause cancer or at least they didn't when I ate and drank them. Tomorrow I'll check on them again.
Hell,... if you listen to the food and health Nazis; everything is supposed to have at one time, does now, or will sometime in the foreseeable future give you cancer.
Does this mean that we are going to die? Because I want to live forever.
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Yea, well, the other day I bought a gallon of benzyne and it had traces of diet Mountain Dew in it. I was pretty teed off.
"Now when I drink beer with every meal, I can say it's for health reasons."
Ironically, that's how beer got popular. Clean drinking water wasn't too common back in the middle ages. Beer was safer than water.
That's so funny. lol
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Everything is a trade off, no soda might make somebody unhappy and the depression might kill them quicker.
With this kid of logic one could claim that driving to work is hazardous, so quit your job, trimming your hair one might get cut, so dont trim it, people who bath have a higher incidence of slipping afalling and breaking bones than people who dont...
Taken to the limit, studies like these suggest one might better off as as a depressed homeless person, rather than taking risks in life like drinking a soda.
taxing time...
Sounds like they're going after "junk food"...
I got more exposure to benzene in one year of organic chemistry labs than I'll ever get from soda.
You could give up all junk/fast food and still be exposed to natural poisons in many food plants: tannins, oxalic acid,... Overdose on anything, including pure water, and you could die.
Yep, you're supposed to anyway. A good, dark beer is good with a meal.
Yep. Beer has food value. Food has no beer value.
I'm a little confused. Since when is a trace amount considered to be a high level? I think for now I will hold off on pouring my diet Dr Pepper down the sink.
thanx, bfl
From my cold, dead hands ...
So what are the chances that any US soft drink has benzene in it?
Good one! (Uncontrollable spasms of chuckling... )
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