Pesticides in Soft Drinks
Pesticides in Soft Drinks: Major soft drink companies have sent out notifications detailing the different types of pesticides and their levels in the beverages they market in India. In 2003, Pepsi and Coca-Cola representatives came to an agreement in the Supreme Court admitting that their soft drinks contain pesticides. SC subsequently directed them to indicate hazardous materials on the containers. The beverage companies published newspaper advertisements revealing the pesticide levels in their sodas.
The Government then intervened and acknowledged that the Soft drinks they sell have pesticides. They also assert that in India, pesticides are present in vegetables and groundwater. (My article was emailed to numerous TV channels and newspapers by me on 26.8.06).
Soon, the government intervened on behalf of the foreign companies, stating that the techniques used in CSE analyses are dubious! Why does the media find nothing newsworthy in it ?
Our neighboring country, China, is advancing beyond global expectations. It recently prohibited the airing of foreign animated films on Chinese television to protect the local animation sector.
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The Indian government clearly lost faith in India’s self-sufficiency across various sectors and merely complied with US demands,willingly leaning towards the Neo Slavery of the Indian Nation.
In 2003 and again in 2006, the New Delhi-based non-governmental organization (NGO) Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released reports stating its laboratory tests found residues of several harmful pesticides, including lindane, DDT, malathion, and chlorpyrifos, in major soft drink brands like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo products sold in India.
Highlights of the 2006 Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) study on pesticides in colas-II:
• A cocktail of 3-6 pesticides was present in all samples.
• Lindane (a confirmed carcinogen) levels were over 54 times above the BIS standard; in one Coca-Cola sample from Kolkata, it was 140 times higher.
• Chlorpyrifos (a known neurotoxin) levels were 47 times higher; a Coca-Cola sample from Mumbai had a 200 times higher level.
• Heptachlor, banned in India, was found in 71 per cent of the samples, at levels 4 times higher than BIS standards.
• Average amount of pesticide residues found in all the samples was 11.85 parts per billion (ppb) — 24 times higher than the BIS standards for total pesticides in soft drinks (0.5 ppb).
• Pepsi cola contained 30 times higher residues on an average.
• Coca-Cola contained 27 times higher residues on an average.
Further, studies indicate that soft drinks sold in the US and other countries did not show the same pesticide residues at the time of the controversy. But the issue was being diluted by suggesting that the problem was specific to the water sources at the time. And now it is argued that test procedure adopted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) to test the samples itself is defective.
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