California judge rules coffee firms including Starbucks must add cancer warning

Companies failed to show threat from chemical produced during roasting posed insignificant risk, judge says

A Los Angeles judge has ruled that California law requires coffee companies to carry an ominous cancer warning label because of a chemical produced in the roasting process.

Elihu Berle, a superior court judge, wrote in a proposed ruling on Wednesday that Starbucks and other coffee companies failed to show that the threat from a chemical compound produced in the roasting process was insignificant.

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