Posted on 09/24/2017 9:27:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Mexican authorities have removed the soft drink from shelves in the Mexicali area, just south of the California border, and are investigating how the drug made its way into the soda, according to a news release from the Baja California Health Department and a Facebook post from the Baja attorney general on Monday. The reported cases were in the Mexicali Valley, about 120 miles from San Diego.
Experts are warning travelers to the area to pay extra attention to whether the seals on their food and drinks are intact. Banner Health, which operates 28 hospitals in six U.S. states, says its toxicologists and emergency department physicians are on high alert following the reports of tampering.
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7Up products in the United States have not been contaminated, Chris Barnes, a spokesman for Dr Pepper Snapple Group, told AZ Central.
“None of the 7Up products sold in the U.S. are affected by the issue being reported in Mexico,” Barnes said. “Dr Pepper Snapple owns and licenses the 7Up brand only in the U.S. and its territories. We do not market, sell or distribute the brand internationally.”
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Methico.
Another reason I don’t go to Mexico anymore.
Silly buggers. Just because Coke used to really have cocaine in it, doesn’t mean 7up with meth is better.
Mexico - where the ice is warm and the flies are numerous.
7UP used to have lithium in it. At least it wouldn’t kill ya.
There have been a bunch of stories about tourists getting drugged in mexico the past couple years
It had lithium in it until *1948*!
If I had only known I wouldn’t have
drank all those Chocolate Soldiers.
Used to be the water was deadly - now it is soft drinks. When Alcohol is deadly - mexico’s tourism will tank. I am being a it sarcastic- as alcohol is already to blame in some tourist incidents
yeah maybe i can dig up the story i was thinking of about people getting spiked drinks in mexico, getting robbed etc..
Probably a drug raid at a 7-Up factory in Mexico and they had to dump their load somewhere...
there is NOTHING worth seeing or doing in that sh!thole south of the border worth your life, nothing
Ha! Nice.
Wow.
Thaths Methed-up?!!
ddddamn I-i-i-i-ii-ii- am j-j-j-jj-j-jacked on this storrrryyy.
Hecho0 en Mejico!
So when I go to Mexico, and drink &up I will worry about Meth. Wait...I think I am good.
Mexico -
Wonder what they will try next to promote their friendly country /sarcasm
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