Coca-Cola drink center of death probe
By Xu Chi |
December 1, 2011, Thursday
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A COCA-COLA drink has been removed from sale in a city in northeastern China after a 10-year-old boy died. His mother, who also drank the product, is in a coma.
Police in Changchun said highly toxic pesticide was found in the remaining contents of a bottle of strawberry-flavored Minute Maid Pulpy Super Milky.
An official surnamed Li with the Changchun government said local industrial and commercial bureau removed all bottles of the drink from city shops yesterday morning.
A police investigation is ongoing and officers say it is too early to tell whether the contamination was caused by someone putting pesticide into the bottle or whether it had been introduced during the production process.
Meanwhile, food safety officials in the city are warning residents not to drink any bottles they may have at home. They are also urging anyone who has the drink to hand it in to the industrial and commercial bureau immediately.
Coca-Cola Changchun Co issued a statement yesterday saying that the company had "carried out reviews of the retention samples of the same production batches, but hadn't found anything unusual."
International standards
The statement added: "All the products are safe and within standards."
Wang Lei, a PR official with Coca-Cola Beijing, said all Coca-Cola bottling factories across the country had checked their working processes and found no problems.
So far, he said, the company had no intention of taking products off the shelves nationwide as they had confidence in their quality and safety by working strictly under international standards.
In Shanghai, strawberry-flavored Minute Maid Pulpy Super Milky is still on sale, with some supermarket officials saying the authorities hadn't yet issued any notice about removing the product.
"Our supplier told us that the batch of the beverage products being sold here is not the same batch in Changchun," said an official surnamed Sun with the Shanghai Lotus Supermarket.
"The supplier said different batches are produced by various manufacturers."
A Carrefour spokesman said it was still selling the drink as the poisoning incident might be only "an accidental event in the northeast China region."
An official surnamed Zhang with Shanghai's industrial and commercial bureau said they had been told of the Changchun incident and would be paying close attention to the product in the local market.
There would be no ban before the results of the investigation were known, Zhang said.
Police in Changchun said highly toxic pesticide was found in the remaining contents of a bottle of strawberry-flavored Minute Maid Pulpy Super Milky.
An official surnamed Li with the Changchun government said local industrial and commercial bureau removed all bottles of the drink from city shops yesterday morning.
A police investigation is ongoing and officers say it is too early to tell whether the contamination was caused by someone putting pesticide into the bottle or whether it had been introduced during the production process.
Meanwhile, food safety officials in the city are warning residents not to drink any bottles they may have at home. They are also urging anyone who has the drink to hand it in to the industrial and commercial bureau immediately.
Coca-Cola Changchun Co issued a statement yesterday saying that the company had "carried out reviews of the retention samples of the same production batches, but hadn't found anything unusual."
International standards
The statement added: "All the products are safe and within standards."
Wang Lei, a PR official with Coca-Cola Beijing, said all Coca-Cola bottling factories across the country had checked their working processes and found no problems.
So far, he said, the company had no intention of taking products off the shelves nationwide as they had confidence in their quality and safety by working strictly under international standards.
In Shanghai, strawberry-flavored Minute Maid Pulpy Super Milky is still on sale, with some supermarket officials saying the authorities hadn't yet issued any notice about removing the product.
"Our supplier told us that the batch of the beverage products being sold here is not the same batch in Changchun," said an official surnamed Sun with the Shanghai Lotus Supermarket.
"The supplier said different batches are produced by various manufacturers."
A Carrefour spokesman said it was still selling the drink as the poisoning incident might be only "an accidental event in the northeast China region."
An official surnamed Zhang with Shanghai's industrial and commercial bureau said they had been told of the Changchun incident and would be paying close attention to the product in the local market.
There would be no ban before the results of the investigation were known, Zhang said.
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