Is beer safer than soft drinks?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=65840-soft-drinks-fda-benzene
FDA re-opens probe into benzene contamination of soft drinks

2/15/2006 - US food safety authorities have re-opened an investigation
closed 15 years ago into soft drinks contaminated with cancer-causing
chemical benzene, following evidence the industry has failed to sort out the
problem.

A chemist at the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) said testing in recent
weeks had revealed some soft drinks contaminated with benzene at levels
above the legal limit for water set by the US and Europe. 
Benzene is listed as a poisonous chemical shown to increase the risk of
leukaemia and other cancers. 

The FDA was originally alerted in 1990 to the problem of benzene in soft
drinks triggered by the preservative sodium benzoate. It never made the
findings public, but came to an arrangement with the US soft drinks
association that the industry would "get the word out". 

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