Soft Drinks and Hard Facts

In India All of us know how many times allegations on Soft Drink Companies are made of having more than prescribed limit of Pesticides. Eventhough sale of such drinks didn't affect or would not affect at all in future with Coca Cola on top of the list of TOP 100 Global Brands

how can one imagine that Coca Cola wouldn't come out of such allegations

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The CSE ( Centre for Science and Environment ) on August 5 had claimed that the 12 bottled soft drinks, which are - Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Mirinda orange, Mirinda Lemon, Blue Pepsi, 7-Up, Coca Cola, Fanta, Limca, Sprite and Thumbs Up, failed health standards, testing positive for pesticides.

The CSE had alleged that in the case of 12 soft drink brands, of which samples had been taken, it had found pesticide residues which exceeded EU norms ranging from 11 to 70 times. It had warned that consumption of these brands over a long period would result in complicated health problems.

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On 11th of August government gave a clean chit to 12 soft drink brands, saying that their samples tested were well within the safety limits' prescribed for packaged drinking water at present.

Making a statement in Lok Sabha, Health and Family Welfare Minister Sushma Swaraj said: "The results clearly show that all the 12 samples do not have pesticide residues of the high order as was alleged in a report by the Centre for Science and Environment, a Delhi-based NGO."

What to be understand Now !!!???