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As it stands right now in California, all sales of roasted coffee are meant to come with a carcinogen warning because it contains acrylamide, a chemical that is a natural byproduct of the roasting process. For shops, this means posting some sort of signage stating coffee to contain carcinogens, and for roasters it means putting a cancer warning on their retail bags. This is due to a court ruling back in March<\/a> where a judge ultimately decided that the coffee industry didn\u2019t do enough to prove that the trace amounts of naturally occurring acrylamide aren\u2019t<\/em> toxic. It\u2019s like innocent until proven guilty, but y\u2019know, the exact opposite. As you might expect, this didn’t sit well with coffee companies in the Golden State<\/a>, nor did it jibe with current research on the presence of the carcinogen in coffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n But now, according to the New York Times<\/a>, the State of California is intervening on the behalf of coffee (and general sanity). In a public hearing taking place today, August 16th in Sacramento, a government agency is proposing a new rule<\/a> declaring that \u201cnot only does coffee pose no significant risk of cancer, it may actually have health benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n The reason for the new rule is two-fold. One, there is a preponderance of evidence showing coffee to actually be healthful, which the Times politely refers to as \u201cmore comprehensive scientific research.\u201d And two, the State is worried that a growing number of cancer warnings\u2014some like the less-than-rock-solid ones aimed at coffee\u2014will desensitize consumers to actual, serious health risks.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a danger to overwarning \u2014 it\u2019s important to warn about real health risks,\u201d said Sam Delson, the deputy director for external and legislative affairs of California\u2019s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment<\/a>. This is the same office put out a statement recently stating that the carcinogens \u201cinherent in the processes of roasting coffee beans and brewing coffee pose no significant risk of cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n For now, the public hearing is the first step. As the article notes, California coffee companies are in a holding pattern to see how everything shakes out, but the new proposal is expected to be approved by the end of November, when finally and but for a brief moment, sanity will win out.<\/p>\n Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Maybe Coffee Won’t Have To Have A Cancer Warning After All<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As it stands right now in California, all sales of roasted coffee are meant to come with a carcinogen warning because it contains acrylamide, a chemical that is a natural…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41],"tags":[63,45,65,47,61,49,59,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}