Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Pesticides
Posted on August 31, 2007
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While in other parts of the world Pepsi and Coca Cola become part of easy and fun life and enjoy lucrative and ever growing fans, in India both most popular soft drink are battling it out for their lives and reputations. the topsy-turvy starts from a finding by an Indian research institution Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on August 2 which came out with “a fresh study claiming the presence of ‘pesticide cocktail’ in 11 brands of soft drink giants Coca Cola and PepsiCo.”
The Hindustan Times reports:
The new findings, publicised after testing 57 samples of 11 soft drink brands of Coca Cola and PepsiCo collected from 25 manufacturing units across 12 states, claim that all bottles examined were a “cocktail of 3-5 different pesticides”, which was 24 times above the standards finalised by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
The new finding expectedly becomes a several days hot headlines in Indian media and an outcry among the politicians who understandably dont want to be left behind. As reported by International Herald Tribune:
Several Indian state governments have introduced partial bans on the sale of Pepsi and Coca- Cola soft drinks, after an environmental watchdog said it had found high levels of pesticide in their products.
The western coastal state of Gujarat and the state of Madhya Pradesh, in central India, have banned the sale of the soft drinks in schools and government offices, responding to a report by the New Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment, which said that tests it had conducted on 11 products made by the two companies showed high pesticide levels, up to 24 times the recommended limit.
Similar bans were announced by state governments in the northern states of Rajasthan and Punjab last week.
The loss on the part of both giant soft drink company is unimaginable. And they try hard to put things in place. Several efforts are made to make sure that their products are the darlings of Indians soft-drink lovers and are not spiraling into another country. Fortunately, Indian industries seem to support the ill-fated soft-drinks cos and cautioned the states not to rush into arbitrary action and creating unnecessary panic.
How about Pepsi and Coke and other soft drink companies in Indonesia? Is there any such effort from some research or consumer-safety institution like Lembaga Konsumen?
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