Do you think Colas (Pepsi, Coke) Should be banned in India?!
Do you think Colas (Pepsi, Coke) Should be banned in India?
See this study report from CSE
http://www.cseindia.org/misc/cola-indept...
Here is some shocking info
Lindane ― a confirmed carcinogen ― was found at an average concentration of 5.5 ppb, which is 54 times higher than the BIS standard (finalised but not notified) for individual pesticides in soft drinks (0.1 ppb)
In one sample of Coca-Cola bought in Kolkata, lindane was as high as 14 ppb, which is 140 times higher than the BIS standard
Chlorpyrifos, a known neurotoxin also known to breach the placenta, was found in all samples at an average concentration of 4.8 ppb, which is 47 times higher
The average amount of pesticide residues found in all samples was 11.85 ppb, which is 23 times higher than the BIS standards for total pesticides in soft drinks (0.5 ppb)
Pepsi Cola, the flagship brand of PepsiCo India, on an average contained 15.2 ppb pesticide residues; this is 30 times the BIS standards.
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Everyone deserves a healthy drink, INCLUDING YOU.
What you can do?
You can drink LEMON JUICE, FRESH FRUIT JUICES, CHILLED LASSI (SWEET OR SOUR), BUTTER MILK, COCONUT WATER, SUGARCANE JUICE, MASALA MILK........ ..
This will benefit the local economy, and improve your overall health.
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1 month ago
See further details at http://amazedsaint-intutions.blogspot.co...
1 month ago
Everyone deserves a healthy drink, INCLUDING YOU.
What you can do?
You can drink LEMON JUICE, FRESH FRUIT JUICES, CHILLED LASSI (SWEET OR SOUR), BUTTER MILK, COCONUT WATER, SUGARCANE JUICE, MASALA MILK........ ..
This will benefit the local economy, and improve your overall health.
NO, NEVER, INDIANS HAS RESISTANCE TO DIGEST THESE ALL MAN, IF U NEED I CAN GIVE U MORE STATICS ABOUT IT.
GS
Nope...just label it and let people make their own choices/mistakes.....same way we do everything else...like cigarettes.
Let them drink it.
Actually, it sounds like quality control in India is very low - poor water quality.
What about the other soda brands in India?
I would think all of those brands need to be banned since, most likely, they're all using the same source of water.
why u worrying abt it?
How can you like to ban it, when our chirdern like it, It is the choice of our children
No.
No Sir,IT SHOULD NOT BE BANNED,AS IT IS MOST USEFUL IN CLEANING TOILETS.......CLEANING TOILETS.!!!!
Yes! colas should be banned in india.
Why???
Ask them who are facing to the effects of these factories, bad effects like chemical and so more...
Should not be banned.
It is surprising indeed that such internationally giant brand names as Coca Cola and Pepsi follow two sets of rules in manufacturing their products in the Western countries and in India. Banned chemicals and substances that are routinely added to the products of these soft drink giants in India are totally absent in their products manufactured in Europe and America. The health of Indians can be trifled with for the sake of profits but the health of Westerners is valuable. These double standards are aided and abetted by corrupt and lax Indian leaders and law enforcers, who are epitomes of double standards themselves. Consumers must be blamed too for continuing to guzzle the poison after news of contamination and addition of banned substances in the soft drinks bottles were widely circulated in the media. One Bollywood actor even went to the extent of declaring that he would fly to the US to drink his favourite brand of cola were the same to become unavailable in India. What a shameful bootlicker the guy is! If we depended on our leaders to take appropriate steps, they would only ban these liquid poisons if the move gave them some political mileage. Otherwise they wouldn't bother. It is for us to stop drinking Coke and Pepsi and thereby send the appropriate message.
I think they should be banned everywhere..and I would then have to stop drinking it..its just as addictive as other things.
a medical board may be formed by the government to find out the truth and take appropriate action...
i read some answers before i answered thys 1 and at 1st i thought hell no!!! but tha more i thynk about it idk b/c they do hav 2 suffer from all tha chemicals and stuff... idk...
It is really shocking. Yes, they must be banned.
If we tell these people to control they will some how find loop holes and buy any level of politicians. So, they must be legally banned.
No R u crazy or what
if its not banned in any other country, y india??
ppl make their own choices, like smoking, gambling etc. etc.
Let the people in India decide for themselves.
Pepsi and Coca Cola uses same formula's in any country. In U.S.A. people chose bottled water over the colas. People of respective countries make a choice and the companies capitalise on it. The same is true for cigarettes. They make less profit in U.S.A. but make up for it from Asian and middle eastern countries. Your vision or concept is very good. If you can convince consumers, that will be beneficial to every body involved in such business. It's all about how you advertise and manipulate minds of consumer.
no need for that as other drinks are also contaminated..
yes it should be banned
its a choice
Yes, for healthy reason, the juices can be support more. These are not best for health or also not quench the thirst, it is just for symbol status.
well if not for anything else yes they should b banned atleast so that ppl wil not gain wt. unnecessarily. wat ever resons v have with us atleast on a healthy basis they should b banned so that v would stop consuming so much of cola everyday. it would b gud for health too
i think its people's choice if they wanna drink it or not
NO. After all this issue crops up now and again and there is a big hue and cry about it from so many govt agencies. The govt. threatens marching orders to these mncs and they in return rap the indian govt that they would take back all their investments from india and as a added bonus a few million dollars to the right people cool the matters down for yet some time.
Any way, all are happy. The mncs, the govt, the labs etc. I've not heard of anyone dying by drinking coke/pepsi. So why bother.
do you?
I don't think coke should be banned but Pepsi should be banned.
dont forget
THANDA MATLAB
KOKUM SARBAT.
I have certain things to say, about bottled drinks made fizzy artificially. I am using this opportunity for saying those things.
1. Any bottle fizzy drink contains carbon dioxide under high pressure. When the carbon dioxide under high pressure reacts with water, it forms carbonic acid. Will you like to drink some acid?
2. Also, while interacting with some professors of chemistry from various universities, who are friends of my father (my father is a retired professor of chemistry), I was informed that they have analysed the chemical composition of a famous brand of cola and the formula contained phosporic acid.
3. Further tests were conducted by putting a tooth in a glass of cola, and no traces of the tooth were found after just 10 days (remember, teeth are probably the strongest part of a human body, and do not decay for decades, even centuries, when a dead body is buried).
4.Whenever a cola, or any fizzy soft drink is consumed, it produces a tingle on the teeth. Teeth tingle only when the enamel cover is damaged. Imagine the damage caused in a few seconds to the strongest part of the body! Now, think of the damage it can cause to soft tissues lining the stomach, etc.!
If you are in India, remember that a cup of tea that costs hardly four rupees satiates thirst better and is healthy too. It is also hygienic since the water gets boiled while preparing the tea! Also, remember that we are paying almost 50 times the cost of the drink when we are buying the fizzy drink! Ask the companies for a cost of production data, and you will find that the cost per liter of the drink is of the order of 20 paise per liter. Rest is mostly advertisement cost, the money that the likes of over-hyped so called super-stars losing to minnows like Bangladesh get.
So friends, ban or no ban, avoid the blackish brown colas, at the least, if not all fizzy drinks!
As for the ban, it will be in the best interest of citizens' health. But, like cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, where the government is earning more out of the taxes than what they are spending in the name of citizen's health, there will be no ban. This, I feel, is mainly due to the so-called liberalisation of the Indian market, where the priorities of the government are misplaced, as in the Special Economic Zone policy, where it is okay for the government to put up industries on fertile land which can produce food for millions, and at the same time, ranting of food security!