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Company fined $2,200; PepsiCo India plans to appeal the verdict

Reuters
Updated: 9:22 a.m. ET April 27, 2006


NEW DELHI - An Indian court has fined a PepsiCo India $2,200 (100,000 rupees) after a man complained he had found a condom in a cola bottle, a court official said on Thursday.

PepsiCo India Holdings Ltd., a unit of soft drinks giant PepsiCo Inc., said in a statement it had yet to receive official word of the fine but added that the verdict, delivered on Wednesday, appeared “erroneous” and that it would appeal.

Delhi resident Sudesh Sharma said he fell ill after drinking a bottle of Pepsi in which he later found dirt and some solid particles. The condom was found in a second bottle he bought, the court order said.

Describing the case as “rare”, the court — at the end of a three-year hearing — fined Pepsi and asked it to pay 20,000 rupees to Sharma for “physical illness and mental shock”.

During the hearing, Pepsi told the court it had discovered many cases of spurious drinks being sold under its brand and police had conducted about 35 raids in the capital against fake soft-drink manufacturers over the past four years.

“We are constantly combating jointly with the industry and the police the menace of spurious products in the market,” the company said in a statement.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12513059/

If I lived in India I'd drink more coke than I do now.

If I lived in India I'd drink less coke than I do now.
by coke... i hope you mean pepsi.

In my mind, the two became interchangable. My bad. As it is, that post isn't irretrievable, hehehe....

Company fined $2,200; PepsiCo India plans to appeal the verdict

Reuters
Updated: 9:22 a.m. ET April 27, 2006


NEW DELHI - An Indian court has fined a PepsiCo India $2,200 (100,000 rupees) after a man complained he had found a condom in a cola bottle, a court official said on Thursday.

PepsiCo India Holdings Ltd., a unit of soft drinks giant PepsiCo Inc., said in a statement it had yet to receive official word of the fine but added that the verdict, delivered on Wednesday, appeared “erroneous” and that it would appeal.

Delhi resident Sudesh Sharma said he fell ill after drinking a bottle of Pepsi in which he later found dirt and some solid particles. The condom was found in a second bottle he bought, the court order said.

Describing the case as “rare”, the court — at the end of a three-year hearing — fined Pepsi and asked it to pay 20,000 rupees to Sharma for “physical illness and mental shock”.

During the hearing, Pepsi told the court it had discovered many cases of spurious drinks being sold under its brand and police had conducted about 35 raids in the capital against fake soft-drink manufacturers over the past four years.

“We are constantly combating jointly with the industry and the police the menace of spurious products in the market,” the company said in a statement.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12513059/


OOOOH>..thats where my condom went that night...my bad..

you know, personally I think, its just a new flavor of Pepsi,
I mean who cant love latex flavored Pepsi, and With every can you get a free Condom!

Pepsi's new contraceptive range :S

Tingly.

would there actually be a point to fl;avoring the condoms, Or would they be pepsi flavored?

i wonder if it was a used condom

the guy should be happy, its like finding a prize in a cracker jack box :D

No, they'd just be carbonated condoms. Spongy and tingly, with optional flavourings. The soda stream of the world of rubber johnnies.

Ahhh... yes of course,
and if you didnt feel like using them at the time. they could serve as a waterskin, to carry around you Pepsi, when you diodnt feel like using a can.

Honestly, I dont know why this Indian guy was complaining, I use it like the Jesus Toast, And sell it on the internet, or create my own brand of Condom Soda

Ewww.... I wouldn't drink anything stored in a condom.

Meh...
to each his own

Tangent: I don't understand those flavoured condoms. Cock tastes good on its own. Why one would want to ruin it by adding artificial flavouring (and why one would have fellatio with a condom on) is beyond me.

lol...I suspect that the bottle was from a fake manufacturer and Pepsi got the rap (as mentioned in the report)...

I myself have seen some fake soda products sold in small shops to unsuspecting customers.

Tangent: I don't understand those flavoured condoms. Cock tastes good on its own. Why one would want to ruin it by adding artificial flavouring (and why one would have fellatio with a condom on) is beyond me.


Yeah i don't understand that second part, about getting head with a condom on. That blows(no pun intended) my mind. However, for you fass, wouldn't you like a strawberry banana flavored penis in your mouth?:rolleyes:

Strappleberry cock!

Another case, this time on coca-cola

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1026585
Dead insects in bottle: Coca-Cola fined Rs 1.2 lakh
PTI



NEW DELHI: Soft drink manufacturer Coca-Cola was on Friday ordered by a city consumer court to pay over Rs 1 lakh after a man found dead insects in an unopened bottle of Sprite advertised as the company's top product in the softdrink market.

"It seems that giant companies have only focussed their eyes on their one-point programme -- make money. For that end they will even play with the public's health," District Consumer Redressal Forum (North) comprising president KK Chopra and members RK Prabhakar and Neeru Mittal said.

The complainant had registered the case against Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, USA; Hindustan Coca Cold Manufacturing Co. Pvt. Ltd; local manufacturer Moon Beverages Ltd and Suri Cold Drink, the retail outlet from which the complainant had purchased the contaminated drink.

Directing Coca-Cola and its three ancilliaries to pay the damages "jointly or severally", the forum directed them to pay Rs 1 lakh to the Consumer Legal Aid Fund here and Rs 20,000 towards the complainant towards mental agony caused to him.

This judgement follows an earlier one by the same forum ordering identical compensation against softdrink major Pepsico after a consumer chanced upon a condom in a sealed Pepsi bottle.

The complainant, Atul Khattar, a resident of Malka Ganj here, had on August 10, 2003, purchased the bottle from the oultet near Sarai Rohilla locality in the capital.

Khattar, who then happened to take a glance at the sealed bottle, was shocked to find dead insects floating in bottle.

Subsequently, Khatter filed a complaint with the district forum seeking over Rs five lakh damages for negligence and deficiency in service.

In defence, Coca-Cola denied any liabilty towards the complainant claiming that the brand Sprite was not their product.:mad:

The court effectively countered this argument by annexing as proof certified copies of prints taken from an authorised Cola web site advertising Sprite as a "youth icon" possessing "a straightforward and honest attitude".

It further warned Coca-Cola of legal action regarding perjury for deliberately attempting to mislead the court by submitting "false affidavits" before it.

"Coca-Cola has avoided and denied in their affidavits aspects of manufacturing of the soft drink, and the filing of false affidavits before this forum makes it a clear-cut case of perjury," the court said.

It brushed aside Coca-Cola's contention that the bottle may have been manufactured by unscrupulous people bent on spoiling the company's reputation.

"Coca-Cola is vicariously responsible for the spurious manufacturing of Sprite and cannot absolve itself from the prescribed standards of purity as per relevant law," the forum observed.

It also directed the sofdrink major to the complainant pay Rs 3,000 as litigation costs.

Strappleberry cock!


LMAO!:D

Honestly, I think people are prone to find dirt, insects, fingers and etc in their drinks.

Heck, my roommate had mold growing in his snapple. Too bad he didn't choke on it..ermm..never mind that...

Yeah i don't understand that second part, about getting head with a condom on. That blows(no pun intended) my mind. However, for you fass, wouldn't you like a strawberry banana flavored penis in your mouth?:rolleyes:

I'd like a penis-flavoured penis is my mouth. The muskier, the better.
Aye, 'tis the true chest hair inducer.

Yeah i don't understand that second part, about getting head with a condom on. That blows(no pun intended) my mind. However, for you fass, wouldn't you like a strawberry banana flavored penis in your mouth?:rolleyes:

so you don't get an std via mouth?