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06-02-2009, 04:14 AM
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| Traces of cocaine 'found in Red Bull' in Hong Kong
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HONG KONG (AFP) – Hong Kong officials say they have found traces of cocaine in cans of Red Bull, a few days after Taiwanese authorities confiscated close to 18,000 cases of the popular energy drink.
Officials at the Centre for Food Safety said a laboratory analysis found tiny amounts of the illegal drug in samples of "Red Bull Cola," "Red Bull Sugar-free" and "Red Bull Energy Drink", a spokesman said.
The drink has now been taken off the shelves of major supermarkets, the spokesman said in a statement issued late Monday. He added that the amount of cocaine found in the drinks posed little health danger.
Red Bull moved quickly to deny the findings and said independent tests on the same batch of drinks had found no traces of cocaine.
The Centre for Food Safety found traces of cocaine between 0.1 and 0.3 micrograms of the illegal drug per litre, the statement said.
Hong Kong's commissioner for narcotics, Sally Wong, said the government was now taking legal advice on any possible liability for importers and retailers.
"Cocaine is a dangerous drug... The possession and dealing in the drug is a criminal offence," she said in the statement.
Red Bull's Asia Pacific marketing director, Daniel Beatty, said the firm strongly disputed the findings.
"It would have been absolutely impossible for the Hong Kong or any other authorities to have found traces of cocaine in Red Bull Energy Drink," he said in a statement.
"We expect the Hong Kong authorities to recognize their error soon," he said, adding the firm's representatives were already meeting with Taiwanese authorities to point out the error.
Taiwan officials said Saturday they had confiscated nearly 18,000 cases of Red Bull imported from Austria after finding it contained traces of the drug.
Taiwanese authorities ordered the drinks to be removed from shelves pending further investigation.
Red Bull, whose advertising slogan is "Red Bull gives you wings," was founded by Austrian toothpaste salesman Dietrich Mateschitz in the 1980s.
It has since become one of the dominant players in the global energy drinks market
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06-02-2009, 04:20 AM
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So even if this is true, there's 0.025 micrograms in a can. I doubt it is, because that kind of amount can easily be an error.
I hope Red Bull sues the fuck out of them for this, if that's even possible
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06-02-2009, 04:59 AM
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how do u know that "can easily be an error" ?
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06-02-2009, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by StylinRed  how do u know that "can easily be an error" ? | There can always "easily be an error" especially when you're talking about barely traceable amounts.
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06-02-2009, 09:50 AM
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There's more coaine than that on all paper money in the world :P
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06-02-2009, 09:59 AM
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how does it end up in red bull neways?
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06-02-2009, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp There can always "easily be an error" especially when you're talking about barely traceable amounts. | in a sample pool?
Highly unlikely. No authority will make such public statements like that without repeated testing.
If TW confiscated 18,000 cases, and HK did testing on "cans" of RB, chances are it's not an error.
edit: not to mention 2 different authorities have similar test results
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06-02-2009, 11:39 AM
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Yeah, I don't think it's an error. However, that minute amount of cocaine prob won't do any harm to anyone...
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06-02-2009, 11:44 AM
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the other stuff in red bull probably does more to give u a high than the coke.
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06-02-2009, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by 124Y Yeah, I don't think it's an error. However, that minute amount of cocaine prob won't do any harm to anyone... | no wonder all these kids these days drink so much red bull...
coffee is always where it's at.
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06-02-2009, 02:14 PM
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wasnt there a similar test done in the US & that's why Red Bulll Cola is banned?
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06-02-2009, 03:44 PM
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#12 | | I STILL don't get it
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How is there cocaine on money ?
thats the real question...
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06-02-2009, 03:51 PM
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how did they get cocaine?
also cocaine isn't cheap, they wouldn't just wanna put it in there..
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06-02-2009, 03:59 PM
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lol.. so true.. iw as thinkin. hey doesnt it cost more to produce now with the added cocaine?!
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06-02-2009, 04:29 PM
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Red bull uses a part of the coca plant in there cola.
"Red Bull says the drinks do contain similar coca leaf extracts but their own tests found no traces of cocaine." http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10467294
There is cocaine on money because people roll up bills to use as straws for snorting cocaine.
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06-02-2009, 04:34 PM
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Courtesy of Snopes: Why is there cocaine on US currency?
It's not because those bills have been used to snort cocaine.
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06-02-2009, 07:42 PM
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That was funny when some trucker got busted smuggling money across the border cuz it smelt all the coke on the money.. lol
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06-02-2009, 10:09 PM
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when it was first made, Coca Cola had cocaine in it...
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