There are many soft drink beverages on the market both here in the United States, Europe and Asia that contain two harmful perseravative chemicals.

Those chemical additives are:

POTASSIUM BENZOATE and SODIUM BENZOATE.

These are derivates of the industrial chemical, benzene. A known carcinogen.
A petro by-product.

The problem in the beverage industry is when they combine either one of these two ingredients with ascorbic acid.

Ascorbic acid, (vitamin c) is not the problem as this is vital to sustain life and required to prevent acute induced scurvy, (a multitude of disease states) and full blown scurvy itself. You need ascorbic acid as its part of the human phyisological make up and neccessary to sustain life. You will die in 160 days without it as the early British and Antarctic expolers found out.
However this is not the way to obtain it.

When the beverage industry combines Potassium benzoate or Sodium benzoate with ascorbic acid, it chemically reverts back to benzene and sunlight and heat will raise this level even higher.

For example, a six pack of the beverage sitting in a warm or hot car will further raise these levels much higher.

Here in the States the Food and Drug Administration has known about this since 1990 (16 years) and has been dragging its feet on the issue.
Same in European nations.

They use benzene derrivatives to stop bacterial growth in beverages.
(a perservative).

Benzene derrivates do not belong in the human body. You will find this chemical listed as one of the worst in Material Safety Data Sheets in industry. Commonly used in things like brake cleaners, solvents etc.

Do not think the FDA protects your health anymore so than what has been let to happen with Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, (RBGH) and the dairy industry. Another source of a multitude of diseases and cancer in humans.

Soda also contains very high amounts of the bone de-mineralizer Phosphoric acid. It takes 25 glasses of water to flush out the phosphoric acid of 1, 16 oz soda. The high sugar masks the extreme acid taste so you dont really notice it.

At any rate read your labels and protect your health because no one else has done the job they are supposed to be doing to protect the public.

Why even have an FDA? The O.C.A (a group made up of ordinary citizens)
Is doing what the FDA should be doing.

The first part of this article link addresses Europe and the second half addresses the United States.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/food...zene060303.cfm



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Ganjasaurusrex Reviewed by Ganjasaurusrex on . Cancer causing benzene in certain softdrinks There are many soft drink beverages on the market both here in the United States, Europe and Asia that contain two harmful perseravative chemicals. Those chemical additives are: POTASSIUM BENZOATE and SODIUM BENZOATE. These are derivates of the industrial chemical, benzene. A known carcinogen. A petro by-product. The problem in the beverage industry is when they combine either one of these two ingredients with ascorbic acid. Rating: 5