Starbucks coffee in California must have cancer warning, judge says
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Starbucks coffee in California must have cancer warning, judge s..
Starbucks Corp and other coffee sellers must put a cancer warning on coffee sold in California, a Los Angeles judge has ruled, possibly exposing the companies to millions of dollars in fines.
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.
Judge rules Starbucks must put cancer warning on Coffee in Calif..
Those stickers are on everything to the point that they are essentially meaningless
I thought it was just a joke that California had cancer warning signs everywhere until recently when I went there and saw them literally everywhere. Even if the things they say do actually give cancer, the warning gets diminished when literally everything is known to the State of California to cause cancer.
Being alive is known to the State of California to cause cancer.
Yep. Not a single Californian even remotely cares about those signs.
Honestly, they're much more of a liability waiver than an actual warning.
I would preferably also like to put health warning stickers on tax forms. Stress from working and paying taxes are a real threat to our wellbeing.
Thank you.
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