Pepsi One Has Too-High Levels Of Carcinogen - It May Cause Cancer!

Not to scare you away from soda consumption, or anything like that, however, you may want to slow down on your consumption of soft drinks (Soda). There is a new Consumer Reports that shows 12 brands of soda have varying levels of 4-methylimidazole (also known as 4-Mel) — an impurity found in some caramel coloring. The fear is that, these chemicals may cause cancer!

Let me break this down in lay man’s term – it is not sage to drink, it causes cancer. Under California's Prop 65, the chemical is included on a state list of substances that can cause cancer. An arm of the World Health Organization has classified 4-MEI as a possible carcinogen.

Testing by Consumer Reports found very low levels of 4-MEI in Coca-Cola, Coke Zero and Diet Coke. They found that 4-MEI was greatly reduced in Coke products after Coke worked with its supplier to reformulate the caramel manufacturing process.

But the study did find higher levels of the compound in some Pepsi products, particularly in Pepsi One. During an eight-month period, the researchers purchased a dozen 12-ounce servings of Pepsi One from different batches at stores in California.

Although the federal government has no limits on 4-MEI, California law says that people should not consume more than 29 mg of the compound per day. The Food and Drug Administration says there's no reason to believe that the coloring added to sodas is unsafe. But the agency is taking another look just to make sure.