Coke and Pepsi Change Recipes to Avoid Cancer Warning Label
The two king companies of soft drinks are changing the way they make one of their ingredients to avoid a regulatory headache.
FOX News Radio’s Chris Stanley has the story:
Both Coca-Cola and Pepsico changing the the manufacturing process for the caramel coloring used in their sodas because of a California law mandating drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens have to come with a cancer warning label.
It’s been changed for California, but will now be expanded nationwide, resulting in reduced levels of the chemical 4-methylimidazole.
A Coca-Cola representative says that while there’s no public health risk justifying the change, it’s being done to avoid a “scientifically unfounded warning”.
The FDA does say a consumer would have to drink a thousand cans of soda a day to get the dose linked to cancer in mice.
Chris Stanley, FOX News Radio
