California cancer: Coffee warnings threaten public health and business nationwide

By Breanne Kincaid

Published April 6, 2018 4:00am ET

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California cancer: Coffee warnings threaten public health and business nationwide — Afshin Afshar takes a sip from a coffee drink he bought at a Philz Coffee shop in San Francisco, Friday, March 30, 2018. Coffee sellers will have to post ominous warnings in California because each cup contains a chemical linked to cancer, a judge ruled. The culprit is a byproduct of the bean roasting process that is a known carcinogen and has been at the heart of an eight-year legal struggle between a tiny nonprofit group and Big Coffee companies. | (Jeff Chiu/AP)

Last week a Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled that morning lattes are dangerous enough to warrant the same cancer warning as asbestos and lead.

Starbucks and 7-Eleven were among roughly 90 coffee retailers targeted in a 2010 lawsuit from the Council for Education and Research in Toxics, or CERT. The nonprofit alleged that California’s Proposition 65 law required the companies to warn consumers that coffee could expose them to a carcinogen called acrylamide.

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