Coca-Cola and Pepsi

COCA-COLA AND CANCER SCARE.

An ingredient used in Coca-Cola and Pepsi is a cancer risk and should be banned, an influential lobby group has claimed.

The concerns relate to an artificial brown colouring agent that the researchers say could be causing thousands of cancers.

‘The caramel colouring used in Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and other foods is contaminated with two cancer-causing chemicals and should be banned,’ said the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a health lobby group based in Washington, DC.

‘In contrast to the caramel one might make at home by melting sugar in a saucepan, the artificial brown colouring in colas and some other products is made by reacting sugars with ammonia and sulphites under high pressure and temperatures.

‘Chemical reactions result in the formation of two substances known as 2-MI and 4-MI which in government-conducted studies caused lung, liver, or thyroid cancer or leukaemia in laboratory mice or rats.’

America’s National Toxicology Program says that there is ‘clear evidence’ that both 2-MI and 4-MI are animal carcinogens, and therefore likely to pose a risk to humans.

(Daily Mail- Thursday 17^th February.)

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This news article talks about the effects of the caramel colouring in Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

This cancer can cause harm to the lungs liver, or thirod. For me, this news is ridiculous, because if we start to think about all the things that provoke cancer, we must stop eating and drinking!

All the things in excess can provoke cancer, but with moderation most are good.

I think this news is created to advertise the people who drink more than 1 coca-cola or Pepsi a day.