Civil Litigation,
Government
Mar. 30, 2018
Judge rules coffee companies failed to defend chemical health risk
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled in a long-running Proposition 65 trial that Starbucks and coffee makers did not prove a chemical compound formed during the brewing of coffee does not pose a health risk.
LOS ANGELES -- Starbucks and other coffee makers failed to prove that a chemical compound formed during brewing does not pose a health risk, a superior court judge said.
In a proposed order, Judge Elihu Berle ruled Wednesday that Starbucks didn't offer evidence there is a health benefit to the consumption of coffee, nor did the coffee seller establish a safe level of the chemical acrylamide. Under California's Proposition 65, acrylam...
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