Posted on 08/06/2006 5:00:54 PM PDT by kingattax
NEW DELHI, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- India's highest court has ordered the Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo to reveal the formulas for their products, the Times of London reported.
The Supreme Court ordered the soft drink makers to provide details of the chemical composition and ingredients of their products, following the release of a study by India's Center for Science and Environment, which found the presence of a "pesticide cocktail" in 11 brands of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo beverages.
Justices S.B. Sinha and Dalveer Bhandari ordered the companies to reply within four weeks, the Press Trust of India reported.
Coca-Cola has zealously guarded the secret formula for Coke for 120 years.
"If they don't comply, then the court has the authority to suspend sales," said Shreyas Patel, of the Indian law firm Fox Mandal Little. "But no one is going to give away a 120-year-old secret, especially in a country like India. Someone would go and make it themselves."
The study's results came three years after the same brands were initially found to contain pesticides. Researchers said they tested 57 samples of 11 soft drink brands produced by Coke and Pepsi at 25 manufacturing units across 12 Indian states
Looks like no more coke and pepsi in India. Delhi cola anyone?
So that's why it tastes so good.
What, they didn't find cocaine?
Ah, yes, the secret mind-altering chemicals that make the funny little foreign people bend to America's will.
Looks like no more coke and pepsi in India. Delhi cola anyone?
label it as toilet bowl cleaner, it will sell....
This scam again. Last year the accusation was so persistent that several neighboring countries tested Coke. Business as usual in South Asia.
Ummm... Cokes formula is known to at least 3 groups. Pepsi co., A group of university chemists who coke bought off with research grants and Coca Cola. The secret is out for anyone who has the right equipment.
Yeah you have a point. I don't think its right to ask them for the cola recipe. What might be better is to make them sign bonds that there is no toxic additives in their syrup and an undertaking that they can be fined a few billion dollars even if a single genuine bottle of coke/pepsi/any other drink is found to contain toxic substances over permissible limits. Periodic testing of random samples by NGOs and gvernment agencies will be able to solve the problem.
Eyewitnesses to its consumption tell me that the "thumb" part is about what you will need to put a halt to the diarrhean this stuff causes.
The local brand you talk about is now owned 100% by Coca Cola. Says a lot about Coca Cola, doesn't it? :)
Playing both ends against the middle, Fur Shur.
I drank plenty of Thumps Up, never ever had "diarrhean" or anything close. And it tastes a lot better than the pesti-colas they put on the shelf now.
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