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I say it is time to BOYCOTT these companies until they quit poisoning us without our knowledge!
Coca-Cola said Friday it will lower levels of a chemical in caramel coloring to comply with a California law, but insisted the beverage’s recipe will not change and poses no health risks.
I say it is time to BOYCOTT these companies until they quit poisoning us without our knowledge!
Coca-Cola said Friday it will lower levels of a chemical in caramel coloring to comply with a California law, but insisted the beverage’s recipe will not change and poses no health risks.
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
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".
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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 lost my cousin to Cancer. He was 17. If Coke was going to kill us all, why have lifespans increased so much when it's been drank for decades.
Obvioiusly, Coke is good for people.
This "Center for Science and Public Interest" bunch is the same group that announced that Saccharin causes cancer, too. And it turned out that Saccharin was even more "deadly" than this caramel coloring. You only had to drink 765 cans of soda a day, to reach the threshold where it might hurt you.
These junk-science scare groups are some of the sillier institutions in the country. They completely ignore dosages, and also fail to notice that people who have drunk Coke or Pepsi all their lives have NO more cancer history that those who never touch the stuff.
But common sense does not further their agenda of getting government to clamp down on everything and everyone over anything... so they possess none.
Beverage powerhouses PepsiCo and Coca-Cola will modify the caramel coloring in their sodas to avoid a cancer warning label that a new California law requires when drinks contain a certain amount of carcinogens.
The state of California added ammonia sulfite, or 4-MI, to its list of known carcinogens last year. Along with the state list, a consumer group known as the Center for Science in the Public Interest claimed a chemical in the sodas’ coloring is linked to cancer in animals and exceeds allowable levels in U.S. food supply.
The FDA told Reuters a person would have to drink 1,000 cans of soda every single day to hit the threshold risk of animals.
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