Coffee in California must have Cancer Warning, Judge Says

[Swordsmyth]

A little-known not-for-profit group sued some 90 coffee retailers, including Starbucks, on grounds they were violating a California law requiring companies to warn consumers of chemicals in their products that could cause cancer.
One of those chemicals is acrylamide, a byproduct of roasting coffee beans that is present in high levels in brewed coffee.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said in a decision dated Wednesday that Starbucks and other companies had failed to show there was no significant risk from a carcinogen produced in the coffee roasting process, court documents showed.

The lawsuit was filed in 2010 by the Council for Education and Research on Toxics (CERT). It calls for fines as large as $2,500 per person for every exposure to the chemical since 2002 at the defendants’ shops in California. Any civil penalties, which will be decided in a third phase of the trial, could be huge in California, which has a population of nearly 40 million.

More at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKBN1H5399

[Occam's Banana]

I've noticed that just about everything I buy online is accompanied by a label somewhere declaring that it contains materials "known to the state of California" to cause cancer or birth defects or what-have-you. I'm increasingly of the suspicion that it is the state of California itself that causes cancer or birth defects or what-have-you, and that they're just confusing the actual source of the problem with the things that pass through or end up there ...

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[oyarde]

Cal Exit before they give us cancer .

[Swordsmyth]

Cal Exit before they give us cancer .

CALectomy.

[asurfaholic]

What is the upside of doing business in Kalifornia? $2500 fine per person exposed to coffee?

Holy lord