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Darwynnia  Title: Sugar Kibbi
Posts: 311
Registered: 2003-10-13 07:40:13
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Meh, someone else spammed my facebook newsfeed with this story.
Caramel food coloring has between 0.02-0.002% 4-Methylimidazole, according to Toxnet's sources. So if a 330mL can contains 3 grams of caramel coloring (I have no idea how much a can has) then there's 0.66mg in it. They don't mention how much of it was found in Coke or Pepsi, but if there's 47 ug in the others, then the math would estimate each can has ~ 0.3 grams (since .66 mg = 660 ug) of caramel coloring.
The reported adverse effects from oral doses on animals are at 360 mg/kg of 4-Methylimidazole (convulsions, etc). So comparatively speaking, there's very little 4-Methylimidazole in a soda. Heck you'd have to drink thousands of cans per day to be at a dangerous level. Plus, the halflife estimate for 4-Methylimidazole is 1.8 hours, with the excretion route via urine.
I'm not worried.
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myxomatosis8  Title: amateur zookeeper
Posts: 800
Registered: 2001-7-14 23:45:21
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Date Posted:
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Natoli posted:
I read an article that said the amounts they gave the mice to cause cancer would be equivalent to a human drinking 1000 cokes per day. I figure at that level, just about anything would cause cancer...
ETA: Actually, it's in that article, too...
Yup. If you give anyone 1000x the "normal" amount of anything ingestable in a day, I would pretty much assume it would cause cancer or other problems. Try eating 1000x the normal amount of Corn Flakes or organic carrots for weeks on end like the rats with that dye, see how your body reacts to that...
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myxomatosis8 Title: amateur zookeeper
Posts: 800
Registered: 2001-7-14 23:45:21
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DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Doctors of ACF: I bought a Coke to have with my lunch
Will I die tomorrow?
You'll die in 1000 years. Maybe.
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the_great_ontex Title: This is what cool looks like
Posts: 791
Registered: 2012-2-13 18:38:12
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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This is why crystal clear pepsi should make a comeback
and Josta
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DunesVladHarkonnen  Title: Moderator
Probably on Vacation
Posts: 1,444
Registered: 2003-3-29 22:10:08
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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myxomatosis8 posted:
DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Doctors of ACF: I bought a Coke to have with my lunch
Will I die tomorrow?
You'll die in 1000 years. Maybe.
I'm basically immortal! Woooohoooo!
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tantallous  Title: Thought Police
Posts: 192
Registered: 2002-1-11 23:14:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
myxomatosis8 posted:
DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Doctors of ACF: I bought a Coke to have with my lunch
Will I die tomorrow?
You'll die in 1000 years. Maybe.
I'm basically immortal! Woooohoooo!
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Its what you just said, translated into guy speak and leaving out the unecessary parts
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-Kruugar- Posts: 210
Registered: 2005-3-4 14:35:00
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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Coke and Pepsi Carcinogenic? |
Varece posted:
Lanacan posted:
Varece posted:
Anyone remember Red Die #2?
Yellow Dye #5
We will be out of food dyes. Darn 
Food dyes are dumb anyways...
I only care about the taste
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tantallous Title: Thought Police
Posts: 192
Registered: 2002-1-11 23:14:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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thats what you say.. but you cant tell taste when you are standing there at the store.. you can see what it looks like.
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-Kruugar- Posts: 210
Registered: 2005-3-4 14:35:00
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Date Posted:
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tantallous posted:
thats what you say.. but you cant tell taste when you are standing there at the store.. you can see what it looks like.
Yeah, and it would all look the same if dyes weren't used.
Everyone just has a fake vision of what it should look like now.
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Hawkson Title: I AM AN ASSASSIN (SHH)
Posts: 1,791
Registered: 2001-10-23 22:57:09
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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the_great_ontex posted:
This is why crystal clear pepsi should make a comeback
and Josta
I miss Crystal Pepsi.
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