Coca-Cola's Forced To Remove
Sodium Benzoate From "Some" Of Its ProductsCoca-Cola has announced that the company is removing sodium benzoate as one of their ingredients from some of their products containing this ingredient. Sodium benzoate has been shown to cause DNA damage in yeast cells, and to form benzene when in contact with vitamin A.
This writer (CAL) asks: when is Coca-Cola going to do the right thing and remove aspartame from its products? Don't hold your breath. But meanwhile, be sure to do a search on the terms "aspartame" and "toxicity". All of the giant corporation products shown in the photo above are laced with aspartame. The corporate press is doing a good job of preventing citizens from learning that aspartame was originally classified as a chemical weapon by the Defense Department, back before the drug company G.D. Searle paid future Donald Rumsfeld beaucoup bucks to fire the FDA commissioner who had ruled aspartame unsafe and replace him with a G. D. Searle puppet who approved aspartame, back around 1986. Yes, that's the same Rumsfeld who just ground America's army and Bill of Rights into the dirt.
CAL Quote:
Coca-Cola to Remove Potentially-Dangerous Additive From Products by August
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
In an article in The Independent, Martin Hickman reports that Coca-Cola, the world's largest manufacturer of soft drinks has decided to phase out the use of sodium benzoate in its beverages "where technically possible" by August. Although sodium benzoate is a naturally-occurring chemical and is found in some common fruits, the concentration of the substance in products such as Diet Coke tends to be extremely high.
Widely used as a preservative, sodium benzoate has been shown to damage DNA in yeast cells and, according to a study conducted by researchers at England's Southampton University, sodium benzoate (E211) is "one of seven E-numbers found to worsen hyperactivity" in humans. Furthermore, "[i]f combined with vitamin A, sodium benzoate can form a potentially carcinogenic substance, benzene."
It is not known whether sodium benzoate, which is also found in several popular Pepsi products, will affect human DNA.
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