The California government declared "it's safe to drink coffee!" Starbucks may not need to print warning signs

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In order to reassure people, the California government plans to amend the relevant laws and regulations to declare that coffee will not cause cancer and directly hit the judge in the face.

After reviewing the results of more than 1000 studies, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week that there was insufficient evidence that coffee causes cancer, so it decided to take the unprecedented step of declaring that the coffee that many people like to drink is safe, the California Department of Environmental Health and Safety (Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment) said on the 15th.

Under a law passed by voters in 1986, the Environmental Health and Safety Agency must enforce the law, requiring businesses to remind people of known chemicals that cause cancer and give birth to deformed children. One of the risky chemicals is acrylamide (acrylamide), a by-product of roasting and brewing coffee, found in every cup of coffee and in many items.

It would be a major victory for the coffee industry if the regulations relating to coffee carcinogens were changed. People in the coffee industry recently lost an eight-year lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, which could face huge civil damages and lead to terrible warnings on the packaging of all coffee products.

A non-profit group sued Starbucks and other coffee producers and retailers for the presence of acrylamide in coffee and asked for warning labels to be printed on the packaging of coffee products. The presiding judge found that the coffee companies failed to prove that the benefits of drinking coffee outweigh the disadvantages, and eventually ruled against Starbucks and other coffee producers and retailers. The California Environmental Health and Safety Agency's action is tantamount to rejecting the judge's ruling.

However, as far as known scientific evidence is concerned, coffee is clearly anti-cancer, how can it become carcinogenic? To put it simply, this is legal operation. For details, please see:

So, now the decision of the California government, in fact, is to treat him in his own way-- if you operate with the law, I will operate with the law.

More than a week ago, Congressman Kurt Schrader, who represents Oregon, introduced a bill in Congress that would require standards based on scientific evidence on food and other products.

"when we issued a mandatory cancer warning on a cup of coffee, there was a serious mistake in the process," he said in a press release. We now have so many warnings that they have nothing to do with the actual health risks to consumers, so most people ignore them. "

The bill has won bipartisan support and entered the Senate and House of Representatives, and the chance of its unanimous passage should be indisputable.

It is clear that this action of the United States Congress has given the California government a shot in the arm, giving it the courage to stand up and fight the court.

"although chemicals produced during baking and brewing are known carcinogens under Proposition 65, the proposed regulations will stipulate that drinking coffee does not pose a serious cancer risk," the California government said in a statement. " "the proposed regulation is based on a large body of scientific evidence that drinking coffee does not show an increased risk of cancer and may reduce the risk of certain types of cancer."

Haha, did you hear that? I told you a long time ago, the scientific evidence that coffee not only does not cause cancer, but also can fight cancer.