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To: regli who wrote (55417)	8/27/2006 6:24:52 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

>Cola companies cite government surveys revealing pesticide levels 3,080 times higher in milk, 69,700 times higher in vegetables and 111,600 times higher in fruit than in the proposed cola standards.> It will be interesting to see what units are being used. I have heard this defense from cola companies, but the relative numbers seem too high. Is it that Indian farmers are overusing fertilizers and pesticides by orders of magnitude? I would not expect that to happen. Indians are very miserly about using man-made things. They are very careless about the use of labor, which is wasted. The second is a question of chemical equilibrium. You can only put so much chemical to food or water or milk. The partition coefficients will determine how the chemical distributes. The way the data is being described the food and water in India are coming from hazardous waste sites. That may actually be true in a few cases, but is unlikely to be the typical exposure. Cola companies can easily treat their water supply with ozone or GAC and remove the pesticides at less than 0.1 cents per bottle, a negligible price. After all they have 500 times markup on the actual water they use in the cola. I don't understand why they don't do that and actually become the only providers of healthy drinks in the market. -Arun