Can coffee give you cancer?
On 7 May 2018, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled that cups of coffee sold in California will have to carry a label warning customers about the potential cancer-causing effects of their favourite morning beverage.
The basis of the decision was that coffee companies such as Starbucks, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Kraft Foods Global, and JM Smucker failed to show sufficient evidence that there was no significant cancer risk posed by just one particular chemical in roasted coffee – acrylamide.
WHAT IS ACRYLAMIDE?
Acrylamide is a small organic molecule with a formula C3 H5 NO. This chemical is mainly used in industrial processes, such as making paper or plastics, and more recently,
