via BBC News Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing how they make an ingredient in their drinks to avoid being legally obliged to put a cancer warning label on the bottle. The new recipe for caramel coloring in the drinks has less 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI) – a chemical which California has added to its list of carcinogens. […]

Pepsi Beverages Co. has agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle federal charges of race discrimination for using criminal background checks to screen out job applicants. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the company’s policy of not hiring workers with arrest records disproportionately excluded more than 300 black applicants. Under the policy, applicants with arrest […]