Coming soon a warning label with your coffee??

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• Mar 30, 2018 22:43

 A California judge has determined that coffee companies must carry an ominous cancer warning label because of a chemical produced in the roasting process.

Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said Wednesday that Starbucks and other companies failed to show that benefits from drinking coffee outweighed any risks. He ruled in an earlier phase of trial that companies hadn’t shown the threat from the chemical was insignificant.

We hear that the Council for Education and Research on Toxics, a nonprofit group, sued Starbucks and 90 other companies under a state law that requires warnings on a wide range of chemicals that can cause cancer. One is acrylamide, a carcinogen present in coffee, which is a know cancer offended...

“Defendants failed to satisfy their burden of proving  that consumption of coffee confers a benefit to human health,” Berle wrote in his proposed ruling.

The coffee industry had claimed the chemical was present at harmless levels (shocker) and should be exempt from the law because it results naturally from the cooking process that makes beans flavorful. It also argued coffee was good for the body.

The ruling came despite eased concerns in recent years about the possible dangers of coffee, with some studies finding health benefits. In 2016, the International Agency for Research on Cancer – the cancer agency of the World Health Organization – moved coffee off its “possible carcinogen” list.

link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/03/29/coffee-cancer-warning-label-california/472146002/