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Nigerians boycott Coca-Cola drinks after court rules them 'poisonous' http://cnn.it/2otnfmM
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/26/2009 Posts: 1,793
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10 hours later with no comment is unlike wazua. Ama pesa imemwagwa to silence debate 
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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kenmac wrote:10 hours later with no comment is unlike wazua. Ama pesa imemwagwa to silence debate Give us time to contemplate... https://www.theguardian....-human-waste-drinks-cans
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/15/2011 Posts: 4,518
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tycho wrote:[quote=kenmac]10 hours later with no comment is unlike wazua. Ama pesa imemwagwa to silence debate Give us time to contemplate... https://www.theguardian....human-waste-drinks-cans[/quote] Please don't. I don't take sodas but today I tried a sprite cz I could find my fav juice.Sasa sinywi TENA! yuck. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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I stopped taking Coca Cola products. My family doesn't either. Taking Coke is as good as smoking to your health.
BBI will solve it :)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/23/2008 Posts: 3,017
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I take coke whenever I feel like (which is not very often). I do regulate consumption for myself and children but I have no intention of stopping its consumption. Its a great drink, it may not be healthy but so what, if all this health risks were real, half the world population would be dead. "The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline." James Collins
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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I see no cause of alarm in this case. From that article the UK rejected the coca cola products not because they were poisonous but because the preservative level was above UK regulations......but was still far below FAO regulations. Quote:"The UK standards limit benzoic acid in soft drinks to a maximum of 150 mg/kg. Both Fanta and Sprite have benzoic levels of 200 mg/kg which is lower than the Nigerian regulatory limit of 250 mg/kg,"
Codex recently reduced its international limit for benzoic acid volume from 600 mg/kg to 250 mg/kg, and is considering a further reduction in the coming years.
"The previous levels are still considered as safe -- they are just not necessary," says Tom Heilandt, secretary of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, explaining the change. "More work will be done over the next few years to see if the levels could be further adjusted."
The levels found in Nigeria Coca-Cola products should not pose health risks, according to Dr Markus Lipp, a senior food safety officer at the FAO.
"The current acceptable limit for benzoates by the Codex Alimentarius Commission is set to be 250mg/kg," he told CNN.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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This statement is also curious: Quote:But authorities in the UK seized and subsequently destroyed a shipment, Adebo claimed, because the products contained excessive levels of sunset yellow and benzoic acid. The latter substance can form the carcinogen benzene when combined with ascorbic acid, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Most soft drinks, juices on our supermarket shelves are preserved with benzoic acid (sodium benzoate) and fortified with ascorbic acid (vitamin C). KEBS needs to say something about this.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,335 Location: Masada
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hardwood wrote:This statement is also curious: Quote:But authorities in the UK seized and subsequently destroyed a shipment, Adebo claimed, because the products contained excessive levels of sunset yellow and benzoic acid. The latter substance can form the carcinogen benzene when combined with ascorbic acid, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Most soft drinks, juices on our supermarket shelves are preserved with benzoic acid (sodium benzoate) and fortified with ascorbic acid (vitamin C). KEBS needs to say something about this. Benzoic acid iko kwa kila kitu mpaka fresh mkate.95% of all ready to eat food in supermarket has Benzoic acid. Just check your bread and that sweet Afya juice. Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/23/2009 Posts: 14,477 Location: nairobi
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Impunity wrote:hardwood wrote:This statement is also curious: Quote:But authorities in the UK seized and subsequently destroyed a shipment, Adebo claimed, because the products contained excessive levels of sunset yellow and benzoic acid. The latter substance can form the carcinogen benzene when combined with ascorbic acid, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Most soft drinks, juices on our supermarket shelves are preserved with benzoic acid (sodium benzoate) and fortified with ascorbic acid (vitamin C). KEBS needs to say something about this. Benzoic acid iko kwa kila kitu mpaka fresh mkate.95% of all ready to eat food in supermarket has Benzoic acid. Just check your bread and that sweet Afya juice. I love Afya juice.. Hope it doesn't kill me COOP 306,100 ABP 31.96, KEGN 112,100 ABP 10.64, MTNU 131,000 ABP 10.21
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