Litigation
Sep. 9, 2014
Trial begins over Prop. 65 suit against coffee companies
Does coffee contain unsafe levels of acrylamide, which the World Health Organization classifies as a "probable human carcinogen"? That question is before L.A. County Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle in a bench trial that began Monday.




Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Does coffee contain unsafe levels of acrylamide, classified by the World Health Organization as a "probable human carcinogen?"
That question is before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elihu M. Berle in a bench trial that began Monday.
The Long Beach-based Council for Education and Research on Toxics brought a lawsuit in 2010 against major coffee companies l...
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