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Coffee Does Not Merit Cancer Warning Label Ordered In California, FDA Says

A court in California ruled that coffee sellers must put a warning label on their products, but the federal regulator endorsed a proposal to exempt them from state law.
The Food and Drug Administration says that a large body of research "does not support a cancer warning for coffee," a statement at odds with a California court ruling earlier this year.

The Food and Drug Administration has stepped into a simmering debate in California as to whether coffee should come with a cancer warning label.

In March, a judge sided with a nonprofit organization called the Council for Education and Research on Toxics that argued that coffee contains high levels of , a cancer-causing chemical

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