Coffee Industry Mulls Options After Ruling Requires Cancer Warnings<br />“Since defendants failed to prove that coffee confers any human health benefits, defendants have failed to satisfy their burden of proving<br />that sound considerations of public health support an alternate risk level for acrylamide in coffee,” the judge wrote<br />The National Coffee Association, whose members include Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, said in a statement on Thursday<br />that it was “currently considering all of its options, including potential appeals and further legal actions.”<br />The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed in 2010 by the Council for Education and Research on Toxics, a nonprofit group based in Long Beach.<br />The group charged that Starbucks and other companies — a group<br />that eventually included 91 defendants — did not warn consumers that ingesting coffee would expose them to acrylamide, a chemical formed when coffee beans are roasted.
