A Los Angeles judge has ruled that coffee companies must place a cancer warning label on their products because of a chemical produced in the roasting process. Here are a couple of responses from the public.

JENNY LIBSTER COFFEE DRINKER "Well, I don't know if it is an unusual thing to have a warning on. If it is in fact a cancer agent, that's something we should know. And that's something we should have the ability to consider when making decisions about what we put in our body."

DARLINGTON IBEKWE LAWYER AND COFFEE DRINKER "You're trying to ruin this good cup of coffee that I'm drinking. Every time I look down I'm going to see this warning. At the same time, I'm like, well, I'm enjoying my coffee anyway. It's a little discouraging, but I don't think it's going to stop me."

Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said that Starbucks and other companies had failed to prove that benefits from drinking coffee outweighed any risks. He had already ruled that companies had not shown that the threat from the chemical was insignificant. A campaign group sued Starbucks and 90 other companies under a state law that requires warnings on a wide range of chemicals that can cause cancer. One is acrylamide, a carcinogen present in coffee.