Cancer Chemicals found in Soft Drinks

Times Online, UK is running a story about the high levels of benzene found in soft drinks.

Traces of benzene have been found in soft drinks at eight times the level permitted in drinking water! Benzene has been linked to leukemia and other cancers. Professor Glenn of Long Island University thinks that benzene is formed in the soft drinks when the two ingredients, sodium benzoate (preservative) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C), are used.

It is worthwhile to note that when minuscule traces of benzene were discovered in Perrier water 15 years ago, it forced the French company to withdraw millions of bottles.




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