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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (2190)	6/19/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Dan Spillane	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2539

6/19/99 Coca-ColaGerman unit faces extortionist-paper Saturday June 19, 9:56 am Eastern Time [Lookie what I said a few days ago in msg 2169: "One starts to wonder if sabotage is behind the recent string of events in Belgium. Would activist groups in Europe do something like this?"] BONN, June 19 (Reuters) - The German subsidiary of Coca-Cola has been the target of an extortionist who has threatened to put poison into the drinks if his demands for a multi-million mark ransom are not met, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The Welt am Sonntag newspaper, in an advance of an article to appear on Sunday, said that Berlin police believe a computer expert is behind the threats to lace the beverages with poison unless the money is transferred to an online Internet account. The first demands were received by Coca-Cola GmbH four weeks ago, the newspaper said. The company declined to comment on the report, the newspaper added. Coca-Cola has been plagued by troubles in Europe recently. The crisis began last weekend when dozens of Belgian school children became ill after drinking from Coca-Cola cans. France said that at least 80 people had suffered similar symptons of vomiting, nausea and dizziness after drinking Coca-Cola products. biz.yahoo.com

To: Dan Spillane who wrote (2190)	6/20/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2539

U.S. Rejects French Plan for Worldwide Food Authority at G-7 Bloomberg News June 20, 1999, 8 a.m. ET U.S. Rejects French Plan for Worldwide Food Authority at G-7 (For a special report on the G-7 summit: GSEV ) Cologne, Germany, June 20 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. rejected a French plan for a worldwide group to oversee food standards, although it agreed to back a study into the use of genetically modified food because of mounting European concern about the safety of such products. France recommended to leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations the creation of a body similar to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration but with international authority. The U.S. said such a body wasn't needed. Consumer concerns about such foods are most prevalent in Europe. The U.S. government, for its part, is concerned that the European Union will ban genetically modified products made by companies such as Monsanto Co. and Novartis AG. ''We need to reinforce food controls, but for now the U.S. is opposed to the idea of a new mechanism,'' Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema said following the G-7 summit. Concern about food safety in Europe has been raised by unrelated issues, such as the dioxin contamination of Belgian livestock, chickens and eggs and the removal of some Coca-Cola Co. products from French supermarket shelves because of a separate health scare. It also follows a ban on the sale of British beef because of concerns about their contamination from bovine spongiform encepalopathy. Leaders asked the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to examine whether genetically modified goods present health risks and report back when the leaders next meet. ''Everyone across the globe should be able eat as much as they need and should be able to eat in complete confidence,'' said French President Jacques Chirac. U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair highlighted the need to tread carefully and to react on the basis of scientific evidence. ''There are potential risks and potential opportunities and we need to proceed with great caution based on the evidence available,'' he said.