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Group wants caramel coloring used in sodas banned
by KING 5 HealthLink
KING5.com
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 5:43 PM
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is asking the food and drug administration to step in to ban a chemical found in a lot of dark-colored sodas like Coke, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper. They say it could cause cancer, or even death
"The government conducted studies several years ago showing contaminants in the caramel coloring that caused cancer in laboratory animals," said Michael Jacobson with CSPI..Continue reading..
KING5.com
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 5:43 PM
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is asking the food and drug administration to step in to ban a chemical found in a lot of dark-colored sodas like Coke, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper. They say it could cause cancer, or even death
"The government conducted studies several years ago showing contaminants in the caramel coloring that caused cancer in laboratory animals," said Michael Jacobson with CSPI..Continue reading..
Do the Chemicals That Turn Soda Brown Also Cause Cancer?
By Bryan Walsh Thursday, February 17, 2011Read more:
"CSPI says the artificial brown coloring — which doesn't have much to do with actual caramel, despite the name — is made by reacting corn sugar with ammonia and sulfates under high pressures and at high temperatures. (Just like Mom used to do it!) Those reactions produce the chemicals 2-methylimidazole and 4-methylimidazole — chemicals that government studies have found to cause lung, liver or thyroid cancer in lab rats or mice. "It's a small but significant risk, and it's the kind of thing that government agencies should deal with," says Michael Jacobson, the executive director of CSPI."
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/17/do-the-chemicals-that-turn-soda-brown-also-cause-cancer/#ixzz1EFlpd11Q
By Bryan Walsh Thursday, February 17, 2011Read more:
"CSPI says the artificial brown coloring — which doesn't have much to do with actual caramel, despite the name — is made by reacting corn sugar with ammonia and sulfates under high pressures and at high temperatures. (Just like Mom used to do it!) Those reactions produce the chemicals 2-methylimidazole and 4-methylimidazole — chemicals that government studies have found to cause lung, liver or thyroid cancer in lab rats or mice. "It's a small but significant risk, and it's the kind of thing that government agencies should deal with," says Michael Jacobson, the executive director of CSPI."
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/17/do-the-chemicals-that-turn-soda-brown-also-cause-cancer/#ixzz1EFlpd11Q
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