Contaminated Pepsi

Pepsi Cola is in serious trouble now that testing in nearly a half a dozen bottling and packaging plants revealed alarming results of excessive E-Coli bacteria that is in health threatening levels.

The Rajasthan government announced the bad news for Pepsi in a statement by state Medical and Health Minister Digamber Singh who stated that stern action would be taken against bottling plants who failed the government testing for the presence of E-Coli bacteria.

According to the minister, 2004 Standards dictate that an E-Coli count should not exceed 50 per parts per million (ppm) but a number of the Pepsi plants plants were violating these norms with counts as high as 110 ppm according to the minister.

Now that Pepsi has joined Coca Cola in being on the bad side of the Indian government one has to wonder how much this is going to effect soft drink sales in India.

The companies on whose products the tests were conducted are: Varun Beverages Ltd and Sahil bottling Company, Alwar; Ronak Soft Drinks, Chittorgarh; Balaji Bottling, Kota; Ambika Bottling Plant, Abu Road and Balaji Bottling, Ajmer.