{"id":34569,"date":"2013-07-22T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=34569"},"modified":"2013-07-22T10:21:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:21:41","slug":"article_27935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_27935\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi Products Still Contain Carcinogenic Caramel Coloring"},"content":{"rendered":"

For related articles and more information, please visit OCA’s Food Safety Research Center page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1986, California passed a ballot initiative called Proposition 65, which required consumer products with potential cancer-causing ingredients to bear warning labels.<\/p>\n

Rather than label their products sold in California as likely carcinogenic, most companies reformulated their product ingredients so as to avoid warning labels altogether, and most did this on a national scale, not just in California, to avoid carrying a separate inventory of products.<\/p>\n

After it was revealed that a common additive known as “caramel coloring” on labels, or 4-methylimidazole (4-MI) scientifically, used in many sodas may cause cancer, soda bigwigs Coke and Pepsi announced that they would reformulate their caramel coloring in order to avoid adding a cancer warning label to their products in California.<\/p>\n

But did they really?<\/p>\n

Pepsi Products Outside of California Still Contain Carcinogenic Caramel Coloring<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s been more than a year since Coke and Pepsi declared they would be reformulating their products to remove 4-MI in their caramel coloring.<\/p>\n

This artificial brown color is made by reacting corn sugar with ammonia and sulfites under high pressures and at high temperatures. This produces the chemicals 2-methylimidazole and 4-methylimidazole, which have been found to cause lung, liver and thyroid cancer in lab rats and mice.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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