UK : Soft Drinks Found to Contain High Levels of Cancer-Causing Benzene

[Life Ranger]

saw this report in Guang Ming daily during the weekend http://www.guangming.com.my/content.phtml?sec=193&sdate=2006-03-03&artid=200603031116
and further verify the english source here http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/benzene060303.cfm
i hope it won't sound as an urban legend for those who love soft drink :p

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Food scientists believe that high levels of benzene may have been produced
by the reaction of two commonly used ingredients ‹ sodium benzoate, a
preservative, and ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

Professor Glenn Lawrence, of Long Island University, who first conducted
tests for benzene in soft drinks 13 years ago, said that the combination of
sodium benzoate and vitamin C was commonly used in drinks in the early
1990s.

He said that drinks firms were now putting vitamin C back into drinks to
encourage consumers to buy the product. He said that this was being done to encourage parents to buy the drinks to improve their children¹s health but
it might just be doing the opposite....

[Jose Mourinho]

I must have drunk a few tankers load of fizzy drinks from young to now. When I die from it, I will let you know from my grave. Please give me your handphone numbers. I will call you. Ya?

[Life Ranger]

you can drink as much as you desire since you already have the capability to make a choice. But do not make your children who are too young to know this world drink, it is not fair for them.

[Jose Mourinho]

you can drink as much as you desire since you already have the capability to make a choice. But do not make your children who are too young to know this world drink, it is not fair for them.

Na. I bought crates and crates for my children to drink. I am a firm believer in Live and let Live and I don't give a toss about tomorrow.

:)

[starrnorth88]

saw this report in Guang Ming daily during the weekend http://www.guangming.com.my/content.phtml?sec=193&sdate=2006-03-03&artid=200603031116
and further verify the english source here http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/benzene060303.cfm
i hope it won't sound as an urban legend for those who love soft drink :p

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Food scientists believe that high levels of benzene may have been produced
by the reaction of two commonly used ingredients ‹ sodium benzoate, a
preservative, and ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

Professor Glenn Lawrence, of Long Island University, who first conducted
tests for benzene in soft drinks 13 years ago, said that the combination of
sodium benzoate and vitamin C was commonly used in drinks in the early
1990s.

He said that drinks firms were now putting vitamin C back into drinks to
encourage consumers to buy the product. He said that this was being done to encourage parents to buy the drinks to improve their children¹s health but
it might just be doing the opposite....


Those people selling these drinks are all treating consumers like fools (or monkeys). Ascorbic acid is unstable and must be kept in an amber glass bottle. There is oxidation when left open and especially in solution.

The consumer association should do something about this.

One company also sell water that contain oxygen. Why would anyone want need to drink water that contain oxygen - you breath with yourlungs , not your stomach. Unless these people have evolve and now they eat with their lungs, breath with their stomach.

[Life Ranger]

Those people selling these drinks are all treating consumers like fools (or monkeys).
ya, indeed. but those who love it keep drinking it like no tomorrow and they don't think they are fools .....