Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
9th March 2012, 08:49
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing the recipes for their drinks to avoid putting a cancer warning label on the bottle, to comply with California laws.
The new recipe for caramel colouring in the drinks has less 4-methylimidazole - a chemical which California has added to its list of carcinogens.
The change to the recipe has already been introduced in California.
But the companies say rolling out the new recipe across the US makes the drinks more efficient to manufacture.
"While we believe that there is no public health risk that justifies any such change, we did ask our caramel suppliers to take this step so that our products would not be subject to the requirement of a scientifically unfounded warning," Coca-Cola representative Diana Garza-Ciarlante told the Associated Press news agency.
The chemical has been linked to cancer in mice and rats, according to one study, but there is no evidence that it poses a health risk to humans, said the American Beverage Association, which represents the wider industry.
The US Food and Drug Administration claims a person would need to drink 1,000 cans of Coke or Pepsi to take in the same dose of the chemical that was given to the animals in the lab test.
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo account for nearly 90% of the fizzy drink market, according to one industry tracker, Beverage Digest.
Source: BBC News
...well thank god this law came in so that Coke and Pepsi could make the drinks more efficiently with no connection to the public health at all and besides you'd need 1,000 cans to get cancer with it and no one could drink that many in a life time or a few years of regular childhood consumption oh it's always the real thing for every next generation hahahaha fizzy pop is fuuuuuuun
So yeah, corporations and their lobbyists and PR people remain utter c u next tuesdays :cursing:
The new recipe for caramel colouring in the drinks has less 4-methylimidazole - a chemical which California has added to its list of carcinogens.
The change to the recipe has already been introduced in California.
But the companies say rolling out the new recipe across the US makes the drinks more efficient to manufacture.
"While we believe that there is no public health risk that justifies any such change, we did ask our caramel suppliers to take this step so that our products would not be subject to the requirement of a scientifically unfounded warning," Coca-Cola representative Diana Garza-Ciarlante told the Associated Press news agency.
The chemical has been linked to cancer in mice and rats, according to one study, but there is no evidence that it poses a health risk to humans, said the American Beverage Association, which represents the wider industry.
The US Food and Drug Administration claims a person would need to drink 1,000 cans of Coke or Pepsi to take in the same dose of the chemical that was given to the animals in the lab test.
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo account for nearly 90% of the fizzy drink market, according to one industry tracker, Beverage Digest.
Source: BBC News
...well thank god this law came in so that Coke and Pepsi could make the drinks more efficiently with no connection to the public health at all and besides you'd need 1,000 cans to get cancer with it and no one could drink that many in a life time or a few years of regular childhood consumption oh it's always the real thing for every next generation hahahaha fizzy pop is fuuuuuuun
So yeah, corporations and their lobbyists and PR people remain utter c u next tuesdays :cursing: