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Coca-Cola and Pepsi changed their recipes

Coca-Cola and Pepsi drinks recipes vary because of an ingredient that is listed as carcinogenic in California, reported BBC. If companies were not taken such action, they had to mark on their labels that their product can cause cancer, as required by state laws.

The new recipe for a caramel colour with less metilimidazol 4 - that is declared chemical carcinogen in California. The change in the recipe already entered the market in the U.S. state. A company announced that the introduction of the revised recipe for the entire American market makes production more efficient.

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We believe that there is no risk to public health, which requires such a change, but our lead suppliers of caramel to take action so that our products are not subject to the requirement for a scientifically unsubstantiated warnings,"
said the representative of Coca- Diana Garza-Cola Sayarlant to the Associated Press.

According to a study the chemical causes cancer in mice and rats, but no evidence that he poses a risk to human health, says the American Association of drinks.

U.S. officials responsible for the Food and Drug Administration, said that one should drink 1000 Pepsi-Cola cans Coca-Cola or Pepsi, to take a dose of the chemical that is given to animals in laboratory tests.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo hold about 90% of the carbonated drinks market, according to Beverage Digest.