U.S.A. CSPI claims coke composition may the carcinogenic coca-cola is denied

U.S.A. CSPI claims coke composition may the carcinogenic coca-cola is denied
February 17, U.S.A. " L The scientific centre of public interests " (CSPI) Release the report and claim, the caramel pigment composition included of coca-cola and Pepsi Cola may initiate the cancer risk, should be forbidden. As to this, the coca-cola is responded and claimed, " L Our beverage is totally safe " .
According to>Report CSPI warns, though American authorities have been permitting and using the caramel artificial pigment all the time, but these two kinds of artificial caramel pigment compositions are different from using the pan to boil the candy and melt into caramel at home, it from candy and A rub inferior and inferior nitrate in Buddhist nun the chemical action produces under the high-pressure high temperature, will produce 2 plums and 4 plums and two kinds of chemicals in the course. U.S.A. have study, verify 2 May and 4 meeting of May make the laboratory mouse suffer from lung cancer, hepatocarcinoma, thyroid gland cancer or leukemia. A researcher of University of California one of CSPI members points out in the coke products of five different brands even more, find 4 obvious plums. So CSPI supervises American food medicines to supervise the administration bureau, should forbid the use for ammonia caramel in the dark beverage.
To herein, on February 21, the coca-cola Chinese company sends declaring to express for this newspaper, " CSPI is very irresponsible to query the security of the burnt fried sugar used in our beverage in the statement, and provoke consumer's worry to cancer for no reason. "
The coca-cola is called, studies have suggested, " The burnt fried sugar that we used in products will not cause cancer, and does not contain 2 plums that CSPI claimed either. "
" L 4 micro- plums exist in a large number of food and beverage " . American food beverage and consumer goods manufacturer's association show, " Contain the trace 4 plum in a lot of food and beverage. Evidence does not indicate 4 plums initiate cancer, or will bring other health hidden dangers to mankind. " " Consumer's confidence to us of ensuring the safety of products and firm, is the most important goal of our trade. "
The coca-cola emphasizes too, usually happen in cooking process " L Brown to change and react " R Will form 4 plums, even will produce 4 plums in ordinary people's kitchen.
And the American beverage association claims, " 4 plums do not constitute a threat to human health. No evidence indicates 4 plums will cause human cancer. Regulators of any health from all parts of the world, including American Food and Drug Administration, have not shown 4 plums are a kind of human carcinogen " ," Because the national poisonous substance plan has never asserted 4 plums are carcinogen, even ' the human carcinogen that infer rationally ' can not be counted as " .
There are 4 kinds of American food and caramel pigment which the medicines administration bureau supervises, in that two kinds use ammonia to make. CSPI hopes to use the caramel pigment made of ammonia to forbid, this requirement gets support from 5 famous cancer experts. (Zhang Xu )
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