AzureTyger posted:
I don't trust the CSPI or CA officials on this. I'd like to see the official FDA statement, or at least how Coke extrapolated it. As much as I am sure that Coke and Pepsi would happily give every kid in America AIDs to make a better profit, this doesn't pass the smell test at face value.
I don't trust the CSPI or CA officials on this. I'd like to see the official FDA statement, or at least how Coke extrapolated it. As much as I am sure that Coke and Pepsi would happily give every kid in America AIDs to make a better profit, this doesn't pass the smell test at face value.
I was wrong, the FDA statement does look accurate.
From what I can tell testing indicates statistically significant increase in cancer if you drink a ton of this stuff every day (50+ drinks a day in mice, 1000+ drinks a day in rats).
So lets say 1,000 drinks a day causes a 10% increase in cancer (made this up for easy math).
The FDA position is that since amounts below that show no statistically significant increase, there is 0% increase in cancer below 1,000 drinks a day.
California says there is no evidence to indicate that that is true and the standard approach would be to assume a linear relationship until you can adequately prove a minimum threshhold. So 1,000/day is a 10% increase, 10 drinks a day is a .1% increase, 1 drink a day is a 0.01% increase. Then they set their allowable limit at a level that would cause 1 cancer death per 100,000 soda drinkers.
/shrug