那加利福尼亚的“ Killjoy”诉讼现在已经过去了:法官昨天裁定该州的咖啡将不得不带有癌症警告标签。这是由于以下事实:咖啡含有丙烯酰胺,丙烯酰胺是加利福尼亚州列为“已知会导致癌症”的化学物质。所以华盛顿邮报和其他媒体are reporting this morning that “Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle sided with a nonprofit’s case against dozens of coffee companies, including Starbucks [the lead defendant], Peets and other chains, saying that businesses that sold coffee were in violation of a state regulation requiring businesses with at least 10 employees to disclose the prevalence of carcinogens and toxic chemicals.”
法官说,由于被告和原告都同意咖啡含有丙烯酰胺,因此被告未能证明咖啡在无害的水平上含有这种物质。法官写道:“被告未能证明其没有风险或根本没有给咖啡增添任何健康益处。据美联社报道,辩方的负担表明咖啡中的丙烯酰胺不会对每10万人造成一个或多个癌症,但法官说,这种风险尚未得到适当评估。”因此,California Coffee现在将带有警告标签。
但帖子’s Tim Carman points out that, “the scientific evidence linking acrylamide to cancer in humans is scant… According to the American Cancer Society, studies have found that acrylamide increases the risk of cancer in rats and mice when the chemical is placed in the animals’ drinking water at doses ‘1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the levels people might be exposed to in foods.’” Which seems a bit excessive.
咖啡与癌症之间的关系是一个复杂的关系,尤其是自国家生物技术中心信息研究中心去年得出结论,“咖啡消费与总体癌症的风险无关”。实际上,NCBI表示:“饮用咖啡与肝癌的风险降低有关……以及对肝酶和肝硬化的有利影响。另一项荟萃分析显示,子宫内膜癌风险的反比关系……在一些口腔/咽癌和晚期前列腺癌的研究中发现了可能降低的风险。”
令人困惑,对吧?您可以阅读所有事实和决定,并做您将要做的事,但是自私,我们将坚持一侧,使我们仍然每天都从我们心爱的,必要的咖啡开始。