Starbucks Pressed to Remove Carcinogen, Not Just Warn About It

Starbucks Corp., Keurig Green Mountain Inc., and other coffee companies should remove a cancer-causing chemical from coffee or lower the amount, not just warn about it, the California group that recently won a court victory against them says.

The Council for Education and Research on Toxics, which has been pushing a long-running Proposition 65 suit against Starbucks and scores of other coffee sellers, wants a reformulation that would reduce or eliminate acrylamide, a chemical produced during the coffee roasting process.

The group scored a major win recently when Judge Elihu M. Berle of the California Superior Court for Los Angeles ...