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    Default BUBBLES... some may bankrupt you, others kill you

    Pearls Centre kena confiscate. Now pearls kena outlawed soon?

    Tapioca pearls in bubble tea contain carcinogens: Study

    Wednesday, Sep 05, 2012 AFP

    German health authorities and researchers have come out swinging recently against the Taiwanese drink bubble tea, warning that the popular dessert beverage presents a choking hazard to children and may contain cancer-causing chemicals.

    The warnings, released separately, come as Europe, and Germany in particular, begin to catch on to the bubble tea trend which has already swept major urban centers in North America to become a popular dessert beverage.

    After analysing the tapioca balls which make up the 'bubbles' in the drink, researchers from the University Hospital Aachen, for instance, found that the pearls contained polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs such as styrene, acetophenone, and brominated substances, chemicals that shouldn't be in food at all, researchers told German paper The Local.

    Samples were taken from an unnamed chain in Mönchengladbach, in northwest Germany and the tapioca balls were made in Taiwan.

    The study comes on the heels of a public health warning from the country's German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment earlier this month, which warned that the tapioca balls also present a choking risk to children.

    "Especially with children aged up to four years, there is a risk of foreign objects accidentally entering the lungs," said Dr. Andreas Hensel in a statement. "And that is precisely what can happen when the bubbles are sucked up through a straw."

    Meanwhile, the institute says no bubble tea related incidents has yet been reported.

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    So pearls in Taiwan bubble tea sold here locally safe or not?

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    Beats me. Curious to know too....

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    Meanwhile I will just order without pearls....

    Wait a min, isn't that good as normal drink.... ... ..

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    I don know what can we eat or drink nowaday..

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    Quote Originally Posted by zzz1
    I don know what can we eat or drink nowaday..
    many stay out

    Ride at your own risk !!!

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    nothing healthy coming from bubble tea ..

    full of sugar and chemicals..

    I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)

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    good la. at least now it will stop me from wasting my spare change...

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    For the same price, drink a cup of freshly squeezed fruit juice instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by azeoprop
    For the same price, drink a cup of freshly squeezed fruit juice instead.
    McCafe Cappuccino at 2.70
    Ride at your own risk !!!

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    not a kopi person. if I have to drink it, it will be Americano....

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