[SunStar]

It acknowledged that Indian brands also have high pesticide levels, because agricultural pesticides are in the country's ground water, but said the focus was on Coke and Pepsi because they account for more than three-fourths of the bottled soft drinks consumed in India.

"We tested the two soft drink brands sold in the United States to see if these contained pesticides. They didn't,'' said Sunita Narain, chief of the CSE.

[DannyTN]

Fine. Let's put a big tarrif on phone calls from India. See how quickly all these white collar jobs we just exported there go away.

[Cobra64]

These people piss in their bath water and won't drink Pepsi?

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Sanjeev Gupta, president and chief executive officer of Coca-Cola India, challenged the assertion that the soft drink sold in India is different from that sold in other countries. "Our product is ... the same product, which we sell in America, in Europe and India,'' he said.

Being a Diet Pepsi fan, I was delighted to see it for sale in Beijing when I visited there. One sip, though, told me instantly that it wasn't the same stuff. The difference may have been in the artificial sweetener (it wasn't aspartame or saccharin), but whatever it was made it nonpotable to me.