Coca-Cola, Pepsi selling pesticide-laced soft drinks in India: claim

[JCMach1]

NEW DELHI - Soft drinks sold in India by US beverage giants Coca-Cola and rival Pepsi have “dangerously high” levels of pesticides -- some with up to 45 times the European limit, an independent environment watchdog said on Tuesday.

Sunita Narian, director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), told a press conference here that a “deadly cocktail of pesticide residues” was found in 12 leading brands marketed in India by Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

“The laborotary test results were shocking. We bought three bottles each of 12 leading brands sold in Delhi and found they all contained dangerous organochlorine pesticides,” said Narian.

“Interestingly enough, we bought bottles of the same soft drinks from the US market and found they were free of toxic residues,” she added... http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2003/August/subcontinent_August111.xml§ion=subcontinent

[samsingh]

1. here's what the third world has been

subject to for decades. just a balance for the outsourcing horror stories we also here about.

there has also been no finalization on the Union Carbide accident that occured in 1984 which hurt over 100,000 people in India.

[jfkennedy]

2. Not just India

I live in NYC not even a real poor area of the world. I found that
When I went to buy beer that in at least 3 of the places that I had purchased beer the beer was rotten. It seems as if the places where I purchased the beer are where the poor shop.

It's just the Republicans trying to punish the poor for being poor.

[sujan]

3. I feel for the Indians BUT

they gotta stop drinking that shit anyhow. Fresh fruits that are aplenty would be a cheaper and healthier choice.