OT Coca Cola gives you cancer.

[harry]

There's a surprise. They are taking out 4MI (colouring)

I wonder how long it is since there was cocaine and cola nuts in coca cola? Ah, it was a medicine back then, now it is a poison..

[Hugh - Was Invisible]

Is that the one they are taking out in the USA and leaving in for the rest of the world?

[BobR]

Yep, all you had to do was drink equilivent of an large swimming pool of Coke every day for 20 years and you MIGHT get cancer from the coloring.

[ARWadsworth]

There is more than one coke recipe. I can tell the difference between the Polish and Czech ones.

[Cliff Hartle]

Actually mostly California. They would have made them put a label on it like they have to for any thing that might have a minuscule amount of lead in it.

[Stormin Mormon]

Is it true? Do Polish Coke bottle say on the bottom "open other end"?

Do the other ones say "Czech six, and remember to duck!"

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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There is more than one coke recipe. I can tell the difference between the Polish and Czech ones.

[ChairMan]

I'd love to see a company just tell calif, fine, we just won't sell our products in your state anymore. See ya I'd buy more of their products just because they had the balls to do it

[David in Normandy]

Wasn't the colouring in coke originally developed as a boot polish? True or urban myth?

[Andy Burns]

What? caramel ... sticky boots.

[Hugh - Was Invisible]

Can't find it now but I was reading something about coke the other day. Varies all over the place according to how cheaply it can be made taking into account what is permitted in each country. I gained the impression most mainland Europe coke is less safe than the UK or USA but the safest appears to be the Chinese version. Different sweetener. I drink about 10 cans a year so don't expect to die of it any time soon.

[geoff]

In message , harry writes

Its an Islamic conspiracy

Cola nuts?

Harry strikes again

[geoff]

Yeah, in Thailand, there was a big difference between pepsi and the real thing (although it took several weeks for the dependency to kick in)

[Mr. Austerity]

Health effects

4.1 Obesity and weight-related diseases 4.2 Bone loss 4.3 Dental decay 4.4 Hypokalemia 4.5 Soft drinks and bone density 4.6 Sugar content 4.7 Benzene 4.8 Pesticides in India

[Just zis Guy, you know?]

Is that what makes you fat and stupid as well? I am asking because there seems to be a strong correlation between cola consumption, obesity and stupidity. Guy

[Peter]

That correlation is particularly evident in the south.

[IGot2P]

In 1903 cocaine was removed.

Don

[Frank]

The coloring was FDA approved but headline grabbing CPSI went after it:

CPSI is one of those public groups that takes their conclusions directly to the press rather then subject the data to the scrutiny of the science community. The press always welcomes groups like this that give them headlines. I've seen CPSI do this before and would have little faith in anything they say.

Guess Coke figured it was easier to cave in to them than fight them.

[Frank]

California's proposition 65 is what you would expect from the land of the fruits and the nuts. All you have to do is warn that your product contains something on their list. It does not necessarily prohibit its use. You'll see labels on gas pumps, liquor stores, even bars with a Prop 65 warning.

[Jules Richardson]

... and then they put it back again for 1904 onward?

:-)

[Fake ID]

Like you say, the Prop 65 warnings are one so many things that they're useless. The lanyard on my camera came with a CA obligated warning.

It's been interesting watching the comments about Coke's decision as though those of a particular political stripe are anti-California regardless of the topic. Makes me wonder which kind of 3rd world shithole they're working toward. Or maybe China envy where they get to dump their industrial waste into the food supply.

The fruits and nuts probably wanted to ban chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer outright, but settled for a warning sticker.

Oh, and like the gp post, I'd would mind seeing Coke pull their products to show CA who's boss. It might be fun to find out what their BOD would think about abandoning a market of 37 million people.

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