After coffee brewhaha, CA fears cancer warnings have “gone seriously wrong”

Enlarge / Delicious, non-cancerous, coffee. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)

After a judge ruled in March that coffee should be served with jolting labels that alert drinkers to a cancer risk, the state of California seems to have woken up to the concern that its pervasive health warnings may have gone too far.

"There's a danger to overwarning-it's important to warn about real health risks," Sam Delson told The New York Times.

Delson is the deputy director for external and legislative affairs for California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. The office proposed a regulation shortly after a March ruling that would unequivocally declare that any cancer-linked components of roasted and brewed coffee "pose no significant risk of cancer." Today, August 16, the proposed regulation is getting a public hearing in Sacramento.

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