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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.


By Matt Hamilton


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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