Posted on 06/11/2025 11:34:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
If you're anything like me, you saw this headline and immediately your heart dropped.
19,000 cases, 12 and 24 packs, of Dr Pepper completely down the drain! Oh! The humanity! Also, it's apparently dangerous to drink.
On May 23, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Dr Pepper issued a voluntary recall on 19,203 12-pack and 24-pack cases of 12-ounce cans of Dr Pepper Zero Sugar.
Oh, thank goodness! It's just the Zero Sugar version of Dr Pepper and not the truly good stuff. Crisis averted. Unless you drink it, of course, then the crisis is just beginning.
Then, on Thursday, the FDA's recall was upgraded to Class II, which the organization describes as a 'situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.'
So, now I've gotta know - and so do you - what is the serious and dangerous defect in these Dr Pepper Zero Sugars? What is this poison that was sent out by mistake?
Although the cans, produced by Jacksonville, Florida-based Pepsi Beverages Company, were labeled 'zero sugar,' they were found to contain the full amount of sugar that is in a regular can, which is around 39 grams.
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If a person with diabetes eats too much sugar, it can lead to hyperglycemia, which is a condition where blood sugar levels become dangerously high, resulting in symptoms such as increased thirst and blurred vision.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, if hyperglycemia is left untreated, it can develop into diabetes-related ketoacidosis (DKA), which can be fatal.
WHAT?
I have now returned to my original state of despair! 19,000 cases of Dr Pepper -THE GOOD STUFF - down the drain because of a packaging error!
The recalled cans have the product code XXXXRS05165 with a 'best by' date of February 16, 2026. The soda was only distributed to retailers in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina ...
Customers who have purchased the affected Dr Pepper cans are urged to return the product to where they were purchased in exchange for a full refund or to throw them away.
NO! DO NOT DO THAT! SEND THEM TO ME!
My address is: [Redacted by a Not the Bee editor with good sense]
It’s what your body does with them that matters, not their formulas.
About to board the un-air conditioned bus back to school from a sweltering field trip, I put my money in a vending machine before I noticed that every option except Tab was sold out. I took one drink, and gagged. After a while, other thirsty students inquired why I wasn’t drinking my soda, and I offered it to them. It was passed around, but found so unlikeable the bottle wasn’t quite empty when we got back to school.
Well, if the formulas are the same (if you looked)...they would do the same thing.
Smells like a hoax.
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