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