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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
for the dumdums that refuse to read a full article... you guys are embarrassing some times.. for real.
"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," FDA spokesman Doug Karas said in a statement.
The FDA's limit for 4-MEI in caramel colouring is 250 parts per million (ppm). That caramel would then be diluted when it is put in soda. The highest levels of 4-MEI found by CSPI were about 0.4 ppm, according to Reuters calculations.
The ABA also notes that Health Canada and the European Food Safety Authority deem the chemical safe.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20.../19478241.html |
The studies they do on rats are usually pretty short term, 3 months perhaps. So 3 months of drinking 1000 cans/day = 90,000 cans = get cancer. So while 1000 per day is unrealistic, if you stretch it out over someones lifetime, it works out to perhaps 10 cans per day, which is actually pretty realistic number.
It's nothing to panic about, but avoiding substances that increase chance of getting cancer is probably a good idea.
