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Study Connects Cola Dye Ingredient to Cancer
March 8, 2012 at 6:00AM by Zoe Bain | Comment


Could an ingredient found in the dye that provides cola with its traditional brown shade cause cancer? A controversial report released by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) says yes.

According to CBS News, the consumer interest group, CSPI, published a report, which linked Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Pepsi, and Diet Pepsi, as well as some other brown-hued sodas to a cancer-causing chemical. The chemical, 4-methylimidazole, more commonly referred to as 4-MI or 4-MEI, has been proven to cause cancer in lab rats and mice. The CSPI has petitioned the FDA to enforce a labeling system that would require sodas that contain the dye ingredient to include a warning informing consumers about cancer risks.

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Despite the CSPI's alarming report, many experts denounced the findings. The FDA and the American Beverage Association were quick to defend the safety of cola products containing the chemical 4-MI. An FDA spokesperson wrote in a statement that the CSPI's petition is being reviewed but that, "a consumer would have to consume well over a thousand cans of soda a day to reach the doses administered in the studies that have shown links to cancer in rodents."

In a similar statement, the American Beverage Association wrote, "This is nothing more than CSPI scare tactics, and their claims are outrageous."

Studies linking 4-MI to cancer in mice promoted California to add it to the state list of carcinogens in 2011. It's now illegal to sell foods and beverages in California that could increase cancer risks by more than 1 case per 100,000 people without a warning label. The CSPI report has the soda levels of 4-MI weighing in at an increased risk of 4.8 cases per 100,000 people.

In related news, National Public Radio's food blog, The Salt, reported that the Coca-Cola Company has decided to modify their caramel-colored soda dye. The decision was based on the addition of the compound 4-MI or 4-MEI to the list of known carcinogens by the state of California in 2011.

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In order to avoid the new labeling law, Coca-Cola asked its caramel suppliers to change the manufacturing process to a low 4-MI formulation, which will meet the California requirements. However, Coca-Cola spokeswoman Dian Garza Ciarlante stated, the original caramel dye "has always been safe." She also noted that California is the only state regulating the consumption of the 4-MI chemical. Despite claims of the chemical's safety, Coke will ultimately begin using the new lower 4-MI caramel dye on a national level. Garza Ciarlante additionally emphasized that the adjustments to the caramel coloring will not alter Coca-Cola products.

What do you think: Should cola drinks containing 4-MI have a cancer warning label?

77 years of marrige

dust it off

when your 80. you'll have a slight impotence speed bump. you will be faced with this. a beignet.
dust it off...and hit it

battery charger

my charger is at nicks house in bfeagle rock. i cant up load any pics cause i can't charge up. my fault.

congrats to nick and da'naynay on their new girl zoe, to the mota's on my nature son cruz fielding,and to the wing and elsa on mateao james.

picture of new babies here.

lint

cotton is the best lint. the three biggest comsumers of cotton are the household dryer, the moth, and the belly button. now, chesthair, to many peoples dismay, was invented by mother nature to devour t-shirts. if you notice, most chesthair patterns tend to all direct their growth toward the navel. this is how the belly button eats. it reminds me of the desert scene in return of the jedi when the sand monster thing grabs onto lando calrission (billy dee williams, colt 45, it works every time) and tries to eat him but does not sucseed.

belly button lint is a great way to tipp. leave the normal 18 to 20% and your stored lint from the shirt of the day. you're showing your appreciation to the employee by giving them a piece of the shirt off your back.

beware of over drying your shirts. your dryer might like your shirt more than your chesthair. use moth balls.

sniff the hoof!!!

it wasn't your average trip to the portal. it's usually a solo or a plus one kinda mission, and with the mindset of indiana jones. this was a mission to capture a image. or numerous images. our team consisted of a heavy metal italian with a hip hop edge and a liking for getting a deep lobster tan, a street kid soon to be daada who peers through lenses and examines light, a 19 year old mini man truck life liver who wants to know the best way to get rid of hicups in a drunkin state, a balding debaser on the border of implosion due to the absurdity of life, a hair compressing(c300) stylist, a masking exteamster, a partying lover of tassels in the color of coral, a scorpio hand holder that thinks in numbers, a lover of flashdance and firefighters, and a model.

the lens holder had a vision.
so did the coral lover.

there was a medium...it was met, with a lil' OT and a lil' less light.

there was black kettles (i didn't paint'm black), arrows, bows, knifes,a beau or bo horse (depending how you look at it), whiskey the blu healer, artifacts under the feet which many or all had no idea were under us, landscapes, colors, and shades you'd see only in dreams. and of coarse, marty robbins mustache made an appearance via el paso through a banquet beer.

but in the end, after the objective was accomplished...there was the hoof. and at some point it had to be smelt. thank you britt. and now to the photoshopping.

time will help most wounds

anybody game to check the "lonesome heroes" at the mint or in boulder creek cali?