To those who live in the States?

Question

There's a product manufactured by Coca Cola (dasani, a fizzy flavoured water) which I've heard It's forbidden in your country because it causes cancer. is that true?
Thanx for your answer!!!!

Answer 1

Last year Coca Cola withdrew its Dasani brand of bottled water after it was found to contain illegal levels of the chemical bromate, and it's 15 years since supermarkets cleared their shelves of Perrier after it was found to contain the chemical benzene.

Yet still bottled water is seen as the archetypal health drink.


United States
Coca-Cola uses water from local municipal water supplies, filters it using the process of reverse osmosis and adds trace amounts of minerals, including salt.


[edit] Canada
Dasani water product was made available in Quebec shortly afterwards, in April 2001. Prior to Dasani launching in Quebec, Evian water bottles were sold on Coca-Cola refrigerator shelves.

There are four common Dasani bottle sizes sold in Canada: 300 mL, 591 mL, 1 L, and 1.5 L. Bottles are sold individually and in packs of 6, 12, and 24.

The source of Dasani water in Canada is Brampton, Ontario. Dasani has <35 ppm of total dissolved mineral salts.

In early 2005, two flavored versions of Dasani were introduced to the public: Dasani with lemon and Dasani with raspberry. The two beverages are sweetened with sucralose.


[edit] United Kingdom
Dasani was launched in the UK in January 2004.

In March 2004, it became public through an article in The Independent newspaper that the tap water of Sidcup was being treated, bottled and sold under the Dasani brand name in the UK. Although Coca-Cola never implied that the water was being sourced from a spring or other natural source, they marketed it as being especially "pure". Hence, the public revelation of it being simply treated tap water caused a media stir.

The media made mocking parallels with a popular episode of the well-known BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses in which the protagonist Del Boy attempts to pass off tap water as spring water. This scheme fails when the local reservoir becomes polluted causing the bottled water to glow yellow. The episode is believed to have contributed to the severe negative reaction to Dasani by the press and public. Clips from this episode were shown in news reports and other programmes relating to the Dasani flop.

Two weeks later, UK authorities found a concentration of bromate in the product that could be considered harmful if drunk in large quantities. Dasani was potentially carcinogenic. Coca-Cola recalled half a million bottles and pulled the "Dasani" brand from the UK market on March 19, 2004.[1] Shortly after, plans to introduce the brand on Continental Europe were announced to have been cancelled as well. Ironically, bromate was not present in the tap water before Coca-Cola's "purification" produced it from the tap water's harmless bromide.

Coca-Cola added calcium chloride to Dasani in the UK to meet laws requiring calcium in all bottled waters. The company claims that the amount of bromide in the water led to the formation of unacceptable levels of bromate during the ozonation process used in purification. The U.S. version of Dasani does not contain calcium chloride.

In 2004 the Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to The Coca-Cola Company for "using advanced technology to convert liquid from the River Thames into Dasani, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers".

The withdrawal of the product and the resulting PR disaster has been likened to the New Coke fiasco. Dasani never made it to Ireland or Northern Ireland, as Coca-Cola Bottlers (Ulster) produce the Deep River Rock brand of water for sale in the island.


[edit] South America
Dasani was introduced to the Brazilian market in mid-2003. It was introduced to the Chilean market in 2005, including releases in regular, lemon and tangerine flavors. It was released in Colombia in late 2005 with their three regular flavors. In 2005, Dasani was introduced in the Argentinian market with the flavours peach, lemon, citrus and regular.

Answer 2

We have Dasani water here. It is one of the top-selling waters, and is made by coca cola.

The only discrepancy with your description is: It is just water. No fizz. No flavor. Just water. It is sold everywhere in a clear bottle with a dark blue label.

Answer 3

Of course not! I carry a bottle of dasani when i go for a jog and i buy one whenever i go to wally world

Answer 4

No it is not true dasani is a major drink in the u.s

Answer 5

Not only is it not forbidden here, I could fetch you a bottle of it from a shop not ten minutes from my house. No, it does not cause cancer; that's simply another sad, sick hoax amongst the many floating around the sewers of the Internet.

Answer 6

No, not at all. It is a bottled water, sometimes flavored and I don't believe it is fizzy.
Where are you, by the way?
Also, you can search the urban legends web site to find out about this and other myths.
And as to the answer below that was NOT in the U.S. that was in the U.K. which you can also read about on urban legends

Answer 7

not true, here there is Dasani