{"id":702,"date":"2006-08-22T09:19:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=702"},"modified":"2006-08-22T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:19:04","slug":"coca-cola-banned-in-parts-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/08\/22\/coca-cola-banned-in-parts-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca Cola Banned in Parts of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_08_22_srivastava.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_08_22_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiaresource.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/www.indiaresource.org\/images\/outoforder.jpg\" alt=\"Pesticides in Coke and Pepsi\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Amit Srivastava, Coordinator of the India Resource Center, Director of Global Resistance<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Persistent allegations of pesticide contamination in Coke and Pepsi products in India have led to partial bans on the products in a quarter of India&#8217;s states. A complex legal battle to overturn the bans is only just beginning. The India-based Center for Science and the Environment reported that drinks manufactured by the two companies in India contained on average more than 24 times the safe limits of pesticides. Within days several states one after the other announced partial bans on Coke and Pepsi products, preventing them from being sold in government offices, hospitals and schools. Politicians jumped on the bandwagon and the  southern state of Kerala introduced a total ban on the sale and production of colas.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiaresource.org\">www.indiaresource.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Read Amit Srivastava&#8217;s report on Coca Cola here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiaresource.org\/news\/2006\/2009.html\">http:\/\/www.indiaresource.org\/news\/2006\/2009.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Amit Srivastava, Coordinator of the India Resource Center, Director of Global Resistance Persistent allegations of pesticide contamination in Coke and Pepsi products in India have led to partial bans on the products in a quarter of India&#8217;s states. A complex legal battle to overturn the bans is only just beginning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}