Coke faces new product contamination problems

[marmar]

from Corporate Accountability International:


Coke faces new product contamination problems

Less than a month after Coke CEO Neville Isdell urged shareholders gathered at the company’s annual to vote against a proposal brought by Corporate Accountability International on disclosure of safety testing information, Coke is once again in the news with two product contamination cases half a world apart. Isdell promised shareholders that Coke’s quality processes were among the best in the world. And yet, those processes did not protect Coke’s US customers who faced potential exposure to carcinogenic benzene before products were reformulated after several customers filed suit last summer. In settling the case this week, Coke did not admit guilt, but paid damages and legal costs for the plaintiffs and agreed to provide coupons to other customers who may have purchased the tainted soft drinks. Then, news broke this week that Coke recalled a large amount of its Fanta products in Vietnam in March. The Vietnam Institute of Science and Technology reported testing the product and finding 35 times the allowable level of chlorine. Coke disputes the findings, saying that the problem was related to paperwork, though acknowledges its testing results have not yet been returned. The Vietnamese government has ordered an investigation into the recall.

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/page1248.cfm

[Edgeoforever]

1. On the bringt sode, you drop it into the pool, no algae will grow there...

Just be sure you don't swim in there either...

[emilyg]

2. LOL

There goes my stock.

[otohara]

3. Or...Put A Coke in Toilet - Gets Rid of Ring

I saw that on The View - spring cleaning episode.

[Clark2008]

4. Hmmm... Isn't Pepsi re-starting their "Pepsi Challenge" crap?

I smell some PR planting going on, myself.

[rucky]

5. Something like this happened in India recently, too.

and everybody's switching back to coconut juice - the world's #1 beverage (and damn good for you)

[conscious evolution]

6. Nothing new

They have been cutting coke with some nasty shit for years.