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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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 Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 5:38 pm Post subject: Korean Coca-Cola more harmful than made-in-USA |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/08/117_117160.html
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A consumer group claims that Coca-Cola produced here has 24 times the amount of a harmful substance than that manufactured in California, the United States.
Consumers Korea released a statement Friday citing a report made by the U.S.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, that Coke made in Korea had 96 micrograms (ug) of the chemical 4 methylimidizole (4-MI), far exceeding amounts in the soda produced in China at 56 ug, and Japan, 72 ug.
Products bottled in California had 4 ug which means that the content of 4-MI Korean-made coke was 24 times that of the soda made in California.
The substance 4-MI is recognized as a potential cancer-causing chemical and is formed when ammoniated caramel coloring is industrially produced.
�The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA)�s report that the level of 4-MI contained in domestically produced coke is low is misleading to consumers because it is far above the level contained in coke produced in the country of origin,� said Kim Jai-ok, president of Consumers Korea.
�It is disappointing to see the government announcing that cokes is safe when they should be planning policies to reduce consumers exposure to carcinogens.�
On Thursday, the KFDA released a report on the amount of 4-MI contained in coke produced in Korea, saying that the cokes had below-average levels of 4-MI contained in them and that they were safe to drink.
�According to our research on 16 coke products from eight production companies, the level of 4-MI in them was 0.271 ppm (mg/kg) on average which is similar or lower than those of the U.S., England, or Japan,� the KFDA said through a press release.
�The level of 4-MI in foreign-produced cokes was 0.4 ppm for the U.S., 0.4 to 0.45 ppm for Canada, Mexico, and England, and 0.2 ppm for Japan. Brazil had the highest with 0.75 ppm.�
The KFDA said because the average of 0.271 ppm in domestic coke accounted for only 0.1 percent of 250 ppm which is the standard maximum value, the cokes were safe.
�The amount of 4-MI detected in cokes sold across the U.S. was 103 ug on average per 355 ml which is safe even if an adult weighing 70 kilograms drinks 1,000 cans of coke a day,� said a KFDA official.
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JustinC
Joined: 10 Mar 2012
Location: We Are The World!
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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So if you drink more than 1000 cans a day you should be worried?
Wait while I quiver in my boots, before I can express how scared I am  |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| JustinC wrote: |
So if you drink more than 1000 cans a day you should be worried?
Wait while I quiver in my boots, before I can express how scared I am |
Wasn't there this woman in Australia who committed suicide by soda? But even she was having 10% of that or less. |
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BigBuds
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| orosee wrote: |
| JustinC wrote: |
So if you drink more than 1000 cans a day you should be worried?
Wait while I quiver in my boots, before I can express how scared I am |
Wasn't there this woman in Australia who committed suicide by soda? But even she was having 10% of that or less. |
She didn't commit suicide, she just dropped dead. She drank around 10 liters a day of the stuff which doctors said contributed greatly to her death.
Oh, and she was from New Zealand not Australia. |
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maximmm
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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The funny thing is, if you drink that much, you can kill yourself with pretty much anything, including water.
You know what that means, right? Water is poison. It has to mean that, no?
Let's stop watching fox news and reading inquirer, shall we?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill
"Earlier this year, a 28-year-old California woman died after competing in a radio station's on-air water-drinking contest. After downing some six liters of water in three hours in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" (Nintendo game console) contest, Jennifer Strange vomited, went home with a splitting headache, and died from so-called water intoxication." |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| BigBuds wrote: |
| orosee wrote: |
| JustinC wrote: |
So if you drink more than 1000 cans a day you should be worried?
Wait while I quiver in my boots, before I can express how scared I am |
Wasn't there this woman in Australia who committed suicide by soda? But even she was having 10% of that or less. |
She didn't commit suicide, she just dropped dead. She drank around 10 liters a day of the stuff which doctors said contributed greatly to her death.
Oh, and she was from New Zealand not Australia. |
Same thing or close enough. If she'd been from Darwin, Australia she could have been named honorary citizen.
"Suicide by Soda" sounds nice, her death was neither natural nor accidental nor caused by others, so I'll stick with my approximation (always keeping the truth in mind just in case I might need it). |
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BigBuds
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| orosee wrote: |
| BigBuds wrote: |
| orosee wrote: |
| JustinC wrote: |
So if you drink more than 1000 cans a day you should be worried?
Wait while I quiver in my boots, before I can express how scared I am |
Wasn't there this woman in Australia who committed suicide by soda? But even she was having 10% of that or less. |
She didn't commit suicide, she just dropped dead. She drank around 10 liters a day of the stuff which doctors said contributed greatly to her death.
Oh, and she was from New Zealand not Australia. |
Same thing or close enough. If she'd been from Darwin, Australia she could have been named honorary citizen.
"Suicide by Soda" sounds nice, her death was neither natural nor accidental nor caused by others, so I'll stick with my approximation (always keeping the truth in mind just in case I might need it). |
That's like calling a Canadian, an American. Close enough ehh.
Oh and she would've had to have been drinking beer not soda to be named honorary anything in Darwin. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, why wouldn't coke just make it the same around the world? It would be much easier, wouldn't it? |
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