The Hindu Business Line : `Coca-Cola meets EU standard'

The Coca-Cola Company has said that the results of independent laboratory tests show that the company's soft drinks in India meet the purity criteria set by the European Union for pesticides in bottled water. A release quoting, Mr Rick Frazier, Vice-President of Technical Stewardship, The Coca-Cola Company, said, "There is no issue with the quality and purity of our products." Samples of Coca-Cola, Thumps-Up, Sprite, Fanta and Limca were claimed to have been tested by the Central Science Laboratories in the UK. The release added that the test results confirmed that there are no safety problems with pesticide residues in the soft drinks made by The Coca-Cola Company in India. The release said the results from 2006 tests showed less than 0.1 part per billion of any pesticide. Testing is ongoing with additional results expected this coming week, it added.

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