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Pepsi soft drinks sold outside California contain a caramel coloring with a “worrisome” level of a carcinogen, the Center for Environmental Health, an environmental watchdog group, told the Associated Press.
PepsiCo Inc. said the chemical, known as 4-methylimidazole, would be removed from products globally but did not specify a timeline.
The US Food and Drug Administration and American Beverage Association have maintained that the chemical is not cancer-causing and the decision to ban it by California, the only state to do so, was based on faulty information.
Coca-Cola said even the possibility of a carcinogen’s presence was enough cause to substitute Mel-4 for a different caramel coloring.
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