Beijing (Reuters) – Chinese police believed that a child
who died after taking a yogurt drink made with Coca Cola
would have been the victim of a deliberate poisoning, told the
media Tuesday official, once a research
he concluded that there was no toxic in a sample of the same elements
batch of products.
The finding appears to reduce the chances of a retreat
mass product of Coca Cola in the northeast of China.
“Technical tests and investigations of the police
“
they have preliminary confirmed that this incident is a case
criminal in Changchun, which reaffirms that it is not linked in
“
whatsoever to the quality of our product”, said Joanna
Price, spokesman for Coca-Cola, said in a statement sent by
email electronic.
An 11-year-old boy died in the city of Changchun, in the
Province of Jilin, after eating yogurt Pulpy Milky drink
flavor of strawberries on 28 November. His mother became ill
seriously after consuming the same drink.
Police had reached “preliminary conclusion” that the
drink was deliberately adulterated, said the press agency
official Xinhua, quoting to her officiate public security
provincial.
Both cases researchers found pesticides
highly toxic present in the remains of the product, said the
report.
But tests conducted by the National Center of China
for monitoring and testing of food quality “not
“
they showed the presence of Methomyl thiodicarb, two pesticides
toxic in samples from the same batch of milk drinks
“
with Strawberry flavour ingested by the victim”, reported Xinhua
late Monday.
