Starbucks must put cancer warning on California coffee: judge

 

FILE PHOTO: A barista makes drinks inside a newly designed Starbucks coffee shop in Fountain Valley, California August 22, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake

 

(Reuters) - Starbucks Corp and other coffee companies must put a cancer warning label on coffee products sold in California, a Los Angeles judge ruled.

 

Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said in a proposed decision Wednesday that Starbucks and other companies had failed to show that the threat from a chemical compound produced when roasting coffee was insignificant, court documents showed.

 

Starbucks and other plaintiffs in the case have until April 10 to file objections.

 

Officials from Starbucks Corp <SBUX.O>, McDonald’s Corp <MCD.N>, Dunkin’ Donuts <DNKN.O> and Peet’s did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 

The California-based Council for Education and Research on Toxics sued Starbucks and other companies on grounds they failed to provide warnings to consumers that the coffee they sold contained high levels of acrylamide, a toxic and carcinogenic chemical, court documents showed.

 

(Reporting by Nate Raymond; additional reporting by Lisa Baertlein; Editing by G Crosse and Tom Brown)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-03-30

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

they failed to provide warnings to consumers that the coffee they sold contained high levels of acrylamide, a toxic and carcinogenic chemical, court documents showed.

i bet in future generations, people will be amazed we poisoned ourselves so badly

How to put a sighn in the air that indicates that the air we breathe in big cities is cancerous.
A message from a disfunctional country, supported by disfunctional families, disfunctional courts and a disfunctional governement. Expected to defend the values of a disfunctional world.
The future looks bright.
Cheers.

I thought they only cared about Novichok

Funny - in California - you walk from your car park to the lift only to see a sign by the side of the lift that you are now subject to cancerous chemicals.

 

Never could figure out if it was the car fumes, the lift or a warning to stop me from licking the car park floor.

First they tell us coffee is good for us, then they tell us it causes cancer, wish thay'd make up their minds. Personally, I follow Paracelsus's maxim - "Sola dosis facit venenum" (the dose makes the poison), moderation in all things.

 

^^^ Including moderation... 

Dont worry, Australian owned Fox News will get the EPA to allow anything  the emolliants clown wants  

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Perhaps all food and drink should be labelled? Just in case. 

 

so, now we have to have to make a choice between -  Cancer... and Gout

3 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

Perhaps all food and drink should be labelled? Just in case. 

Do they make all cars for sale carry a warning sign that travelling in one may cause death or injury?

Perhaps they should have a sign in maternity wards that being born is to expose oneself to death.

that'll sell well !

better discontinue right away

6 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

Perhaps all food and drink should be labelled? Just in case. 

I was thinking the same.

Just label everything.

For further information from the National Institue of Health re:  acrylamide

 

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/acrylamide-fact-sheet

 

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I think maybe they should have started with sugar.

Only Starbucks? All American fast food should come with a warning including that black colored sugar drink in the red and white can that is so popular!

Stop eating and drinking and it is likely you will not get cancer.

 

Too easy, what's the problem? 

7 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

Stop eating and drinking and it is likely you will not get cancer.

 

Too easy, what's the problem? 

Stop breathing too, that'll do it!

3 minutes ago, ebonykap said:

Stop breathing too, that'll do it!

That will put paid to the scaremongers out there! No need for them any more.

This just in... the CA legislature has stalled debate on mandatory warnings about the sun causing cancer until someone can come up with a way of sticking a label on the sun.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Starbucks Corp <SBUX.O>, McDonald’s Corp <MCD.N>, Dunkin’ Donuts <DNKN.O> and Peet’s

All companies that really care about their customers health and would never serve unhealthy items to the public.

Disgusting knobheads frequently seen at all of these garbage troughs.

32 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Only Starbucks? All American fast food should come with a warning including that black colored sugar drink in the red and white can that is so popular!

If you read the article, there were about 5 crap serving conglomerate chains mentioned.

Next on the list:

1. Added Sugar related products
2. Alcoholic beverages, particularly chemical beer

1 minute ago, Steps said:

Next on the list:

1. Added Sugar related products
2. Alcoholic beverages, particularly chemical beer

Yes because those lung cancer photos and warnings seem to really curb smokers from buying them at 7-11.

Surely more printing in a label will keep unhealthy humans from continuing poor life choices.

Nice job again California legislation, give yourself a raise next fiscal year.

35 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

Stop eating and drinking and it is likely you will not get cancer.

 

Too easy, what's the problem? 

I'm not too sure that this is anykind of solution Ivr181. In mythology Narcissus adopted this approach you see - with disasterous effects I seem to recall

2 minutes ago, HLover said:

Yes because those lung cancer photos and warnings seem to really curb smokers from buying them at 7-11.

Surely more printing in a label will keep unhealthy humans from continuing poor life choices.

Nice job again California legislation, give yourself a raise next fiscal year.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig_smoking/

 

Result of a culmination in combined approach to smoking cessation

I think an exact same warning should be daubed in big bold letters on the exterior of the white house.

1 minute ago, Steps said:

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig_smoking/

 

Result of a culmination in combined approach to smoking cessation

Suppose getting the Hollywood influential movie makers to stop smoking in movies and the music industry to stop glamorizing marijuana would be too much to ask.

Funny how these sheeple really think the USDA and others 'care'.

6 minutes ago, HLover said:

Yes because those lung cancer photos and warnings seem to really curb smokers from buying them at 7-11.

Surely more printing in a label will keep unhealthy humans from continuing poor life choices.

Nice job again California legislation, give yourself a raise next fiscal year.

It's important to inform consumers, just ask Phillip Morris!!

 

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