Coke and Pepsi Drop Cancer-Causing Chemical For California, Rest of the World Still Drinking It

[uggabugga]

are the CA ninnyhammers planning to ban coffee next, since 21 of 30 chemicals present in roasted coffee have been documented to be carcinogenic in rodents? and there are at least 900 additional chemicals in coffee that have yet to be tested?



Alle Ding' sind Gift, und nichts ohn' Gift; allein die Dosis macht, daß ein Ding kein Gift ist.
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous."
-Paracelsus

[rbohm]

Originally Posted by harborlady

Untrue. Anything you can name has a toxic property when in excess. Diabetics believing they could replace sugar with aspartame and not skip a beat were very vulnerable to this excess presumed safe standard. They still are with products like nutra sweet etc. The more medicine departs from it's organic basis, the more incompatible with human chemistry, the more side effects you can expect. Stevia has worked out much better for most even if it's less tasty than nutra sweet.

actually i can tell you from experience that nutrasweet, and other artificial sweeteners have far less effect on a diabetics blood sugar than sugar or corn syrup have. stevia isnt less tasty than nutrasweet, it just has a different flavor that takes getting used to.

This is not a cry to ban these assorted products wholesale but to demand scientific standards that are beyond question honest & allow informed consent to follow up on decisions. In the case of the OP-- I see no good reason that caramel coloring be included in soda. They had pepsi clear long ago and canceled it for some unknown reason. I preferred it and have no choice now beyond switching to gatorade or sprite. Eliminating the ingredient is only going to lower their production costs. The arguments against retaining it are too strong.

pepsi clear didnt measure up sales wise, rather like new coke.

[shorebaby]

Originally Posted by Miborn

And where is your link?
And if that were the case why lower the amount? They did not want to have to put a warning label on the product

The 1000 cans was from your own link. There is no there, there.

[claudhopper]

Aspartame is dangerous and will make you fat. Diet soda's with this chemical are bad for you. Aspartame is genetically modified bacteria. The damage is cumulative. Then there is the carmel coloring and it's probably made with fluoride water. Anybody drinking this crap after knowing this, is an idiot.
Listen to this report.
Now you may want to disregard this because of the source, but I urge you to hear what he has to say, before you ignore these warnings. Then we can say we told ya so and you didn't listen.

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[Arus]

Originally Posted by Miborn

If anyone of you that have posted flippant posts you would not think it so funny if you have lost friends and family to cancer.

I've lost family to cancer:
breast cancer
ovarian cancer
lung cancer
stomach cancer


You still would need to drink nearly 1000 bottles of soda a day to be affected or 2,900 cans of soda everyday for 70 years (as stated in the AlterNet article). You have a better chance of dying in a plane crash before soda will be the cause of cancer.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by plannine

From your linked article

"The ABA added that a person would need to drink massive amounts of cola to reach a risk level similar to the dosing in mice — 2,900 cans of cola every day for 70 years — upon which California based its decision".

Well I could easily see how CA could look at this extreme one off experiment and declare Coke/Pepsi unsafe.
They go off the deep end for many other things as well.

I drink 2-3 cans a week. I'm more worried about food from China on any given day.
I couldn't afford to buy 242 12-packs per day and drink them.

I guess CA is worried that one day someone might try to do that so they need to have their own special version of Coke.