Coca-Cola says local beverages safe<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Soft drink producer PT Coca-Cola Indonesia
\nassured on Thursday that its products manufactured in the country
\nwere safe for consumption amid fears sparked by outbreaks of
\nillness in several European countries.<\/p>\n
\"All of Coca-Cola's products in Indonesia are safe for
\nconsumption and have nothing to do with the recent withdrawal of
\nCoca-Cola's products in Belgium,\" the company said in a
\nstatement.<\/p>\n
Drinks manufactured locally are from local production plants
\nand made according to guaranteed quality standards, it claimed.<\/p>\n
\"Thus, the public does not need to be discouraged from
\nenjoying the taste of the world's most popular soft drink,\" the
\ncompany said.<\/p>\n
Alarm has gripped several European countries following
\nincidents last week in which about 100 people in Belgium and
\nLuxembourg, mostly schoolchildren, became ill after consuming the
\nsoft drinks.<\/p>\n
Belgium and Luxembourg imposed a ban on all Coca-Cola products
\nin the aftermath of the incidents, followed by France and the
\nNetherlands.<\/p>\n
AFP reported France ordered 50 million cans of soft drinks
\nmade by Coca-Cola pulled from store shelves.<\/p>\n
Sales of all Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Light, Sprite and Fanta cans
\nmanufactured in the northern city of Dunkirk from January this
\nyear were suspended. The plant produced drinks for the Belgian
\nmarket but French authorities fear some may have been shipped
\nback to France.<\/p>\n
The company said its Antwerp factory used the wrong type of
\nCO2, the gas that gives Coca-Cola its fizz, making the drink
\ntaste spoiled, and that fungicide contamination at its Dunkirk
\nfactory caused a foul odor in soda cans.<\/p>\n
Coca-Cola chairman and CEO Douglas Ivester in a statement on
\nWednesday regretted the recent problems caused to European
\nconsumers and pledged the firm would take \"all necessary steps\"
\nto guarantee the safety of its products.<\/p>\n
\"We deeply regret any problems encountered by our European
\nconsumers in the past few days,\" Ivester said in the statement.<\/p>\n
\"For 113 years our success has been based on the trust that
\nconsumers have in that quality. That trust is sacred to us.<\/p>\n
\"I want to reassure our consumers, customers and government
\nofficials in Europe that The Coca-Cola Company is taking all
\nnecessary steps to ensure that all our products meet the highest
\nquality standards,\" he said.(jsk)<\/p>",
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