EC Rejects Coca-Cola's Recall Explanation.

Chemical Market Reporter, August, 1999 by MILMO, SEAN

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, the European Union executive, has rejected as "not entirely satisfactory" explanations by Coca-Cola that the company's biggest product recall in its history was caused by a batch of defective carbon dioxide and a fungicide. The company says that excess sulfur compounds in carbon dioxide supplied by AGA, and the fungicide p-chloro m-cresol (PCMC), used in a wood preservative, contaminated beverages at its plants at Antwerp and Dunkirk, northern France, last June.

But the Commission's consumer protection office says the level of sulfur in the [CO.sub.2] cannot explain the symptoms among consumers of the beverages, which included nausea and neurological difficulties. "A problem during production cannot be excluded at this stage...

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