Yvan Seth's Hole in the Internet

When in India don't drink the cola.

I wonder what this means for the old - "don't drink the water" adage. Since if this applies to both major cola brands (supplying 80% of softdrinks in the country), it probably also applies to bottled water (if like in other countries Coke and PepsiCo also own most of the available bottled water brands). You can't boil out pesticides... it may very well be just as safe to use boiled tap water; unless you're in the vicinity of a bottling plant in which case it's already suspect (is there any water in India that isn't suspect - is it really that bad?). Everyone I've met who's recently come from India seems pretty healthy to me, they don't look like they've been poisoned although the article is talking carcinogens so I'd probably be more interested in how they are in a decade or two.

I think the only option is to use as much of that precious baggage allowance as you can to import water - see if a bag full of water bottles freaks out Heathrow baggage checking!

The companies are trying to discredit the analysis of course.

But we already knew that Coke was a carcinogen right? What isn't?