Aussie doctors and health activists have condemned Coca-Cola for making its high-caffeine energy drink so easily available from taps in pubs.
Aussie doctors and health activists have condemned Coca-Cola for making its high-caffeine energy drink so easily available from taps in pubs.
The drink Mother, being promoted as a "right-hook to laziness, a smack in the face of slackness", was being trialled on tap for the first time in two Sydney pubs, before an anticipated wider promotion across New South Wales.
Coca-Cola to Launch Range of Fizzy Milk Drinks!
This might come as a shocker to the milkman or cows, but Coca-Cola are to launch a range of fizzy milk drinks.
This might come as a shocker to the milkman or cows, but Coca-Cola are to launch a range of fizzy milk drinks.
"Energy drinks make people alert and they don't realise how much alcohol they are consuming because the caffeine, guarana and sugar mask the sedative effect of alcohol," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted ADF national policy adviser Geoff Munro, as saying.
Munro added: "We would be very concerned if energy drinks were made available on tap in pubs. We're concerned because research from other parts of the world shows that young people who mix energy drinks and alcohol are at greater risk of harm through drink driving, violence, unsafe sex and sexual assault."
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A leading environmental research group has asked Coca-Cola to consider shutting down a bottling plant in Rajasthan, saying that it is depleting scarce water supplies in that desert state.
A leading environmental research group has asked Coca-Cola to consider shutting down a bottling plant in Rajasthan, saying that it is depleting scarce water supplies in that desert state.
The company issued a statement saying: "We are simply targeting an existing market with our product and offering a new way to serve the drink."
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Coca-Cola Australia has ruled out its plans to remove the controversial additive found in Diet Coke in Australia.
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Coca-Cola, PepsiCo - Announce They Are To Introduce Healthy Drink
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo announced they are to introduce a healthy soda drinks containing vitamins and minerals.
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo announced they are to introduce a healthy soda drinks containing vitamins and minerals.
