Coke, Pepsi make changes to avoid cancer warning

[Analog]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are changing the way they make the caramel coloring used in their sodas as a result of a California law that mandates drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens come with a cancer warning label.
The companies said the changes will be expanded nationally to streamline their manufacturing processes. They've already been made for drinks sold in California.


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[Ns1]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are changing the way they make the caramel coloring used in their sodas as a result of a California law that mandates drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens come with a cancer warning label.
The companies said the changes will be expanded nationally to streamline their manufacturing processes. They've already been made for drinks sold in California.


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[Ns1]

A spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration said the petition is being reviewed. But he noted that a consumer would have to drink more than 1,000 cans of soda a day to reach the doses administered that have shown links to cancer in rodents.

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[sdifox]

why aren't carcinogen warning required? Cigs have to have it and their consumer population is smaller than soft driink.

 

[schneiderguy]

why aren't carcinogen warning required? Cigs have to have it and their consumer population is smaller than soft driink.

If California has their way everything will have a cancer warning.

I had to sign a paper on my apartment lease that notified me breathing the air in my apartment would give me cancer.

 

[DaveSimmons]

why aren't carcinogen warning required? Cigs have to have it and their consumer population is smaller than soft driink.

Because you can get cancer from 1 cigarette a day vs. 1,000 cans of Pepsi.

 

[SandEagle]

this is why the govmnt dont want u too grow your own foods.
you will eat and drink preservatives and processessed shit until you get cancered or diseased.

 

[sdifox]

If California has their way everything will have a cancer warning.

I had to sign a paper on my apartment lease that notified me breathing the air in my apartment would give me cancer.

asbestos?

 

[Imp]

Does anyone even care what California thinks is cancerous anymore? Crying wolf syndrom...

 

[IGemini]

Bring back Crystal Pepsi and 7UP Ice Cola. Eliminate it altogether.

 

[OutHouse]

coke and pepsi should stop selling in California out of principal.

 

[sactoking]

McDonald's in CA are required to post Prop 65 signs indicating that cooked potatoes are known to the state to cause cancer...

 

[FoBoT]

this is why i stockpiled DDT back in the 70's

 

[jlee]

McDonald's in CA are required to post Prop 65 signs indicating that cooked potatoes are known to the state to cause cancer...

lol..damn..

 

[Ronstang]

Yet these assclowns let millions of pounds of poisoned food into this country from China every year.

 

[pcgeek11]

coke and pepsi should stop selling in California out of principal.

I agree. Let them do without, then maybe the people of CA will come to their senses and bitch slap these politicians out of office.

 

[drebo]

California Prop 65 warnings are so dumb, lol.

They're plastered all over the grocery store. No one pays attention to them. Useless waste of time and money.

 

[CPA]

Quote:
A spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration said the petition is being reviewed. But he noted that a consumer would have to drink more than 1,000 cans of soda a day to reach the doses administered that have shown links to cancer in rodents.
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This is why California is so stupid at times. Don't residents get sick and tired of Cali's nannyism?

 

[busydude]

Inhaling air in California during peak hours is much more carcinogenic than this.

 

[JulesMaximus]

coke and pepsi should stop selling in California out of principal.

I agree. I'm sure they wouldn't mind losing millions and millions of dollars in sales.

 

[schneiderguy]

asbestos?

It was something about the paint on the walls IIRC.

 

[Joseph F]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are changing the way they make the caramel coloring used in their sodas as a result of a California law that mandates drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens come with a cancer warning label.
The companies said the changes will be expanded nationally to streamline their manufacturing processes. They've already been made for drinks sold in California.


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...03-08-17-59-05

I see what you did there. :sneaky:

 

[zinfamous]

A spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration said the petition is being reviewed. But he noted that a consumer would have to drink more than 1,000 cans of soda a day to reach the doses administered that have shown links to cancer in rodents.

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just kidding.

soda is disgusting.

 

[zinfamous]

California Prop 65 warnings are so dumb, lol.

They're plastered all over the grocery store. No one pays attention to them. Useless waste of time and money.

The sticker was on my car when I bought it.

ROFL

 

[zinfamous]

It was something about the paint on the walls IIRC.

Lead, meh...