A state regulation declaring coffee doesn’t pose a cancer risk can be used by the defense in long-running litigation over product labeling by Starbucks and other California coffee vendors.

LOS ANGELES -- A state regulation declaring coffee doesn't pose a cancer risk can be used by the defense in long-running litigation over product labeling by Starbucks and other California coffee vendors.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elihu M. Berle allowed coffee defense attorneys on Friday to have the regulation adjudicated. It was issued a few months after...

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