Red Bull w/ traces of Cocaine?

[carlo_41786]

Yung mga adik sa amin bumili na ng isang box, makatikim man lang daw ng cocaine kahit papaano. panay shabu nalang daw eh. hehehe

[testament11]

share ko lang experience ko sa red bull...

minsan ko na tinira yan nung nagpupuyat ako sa design project ko noong college, at ang masasabi ko, nakakahyper! gusto mo matulog pero ang katawan mo, ayaw! at gusto ng katawan mo kumilos pero sa isip mo, pagod na pagod ka na. masama ang palagiang red bull!

[Zeus]

Yung mga adik sa amin bumili na ng isang box, makatikim man lang daw ng cocaine kahit papaano. panay shabu nalang daw eh. hehehe

Ok to a

[Zeus]

share ko lang experience ko sa red bull...

minsan ko na tinira yan nung nagpupuyat ako sa design project ko noong college, at ang masasabi ko, nakakahyper! gusto mo matulog pero ang katawan mo, ayaw! at gusto ng katawan mo kumilos pero sa isip mo, pagod na pagod ka na. masama ang palagiang red bull!

Ako hindi na kailangan mga energy drink coke zero lang, di na ako makatulog e

[uls]

it's the caffeine

there's no cocaine

amazing how easy people believe stuff like that

if the manufacturer of Red Bull does put a tiny amount cocaine in each bottle of Red Bull, they would have to order cocaine in bulk considering the volume of Red Bull they produce

so they have to source the cocaine from drug lords

may sense ba?

one of Red Bull's raw material is a controlled susbstance...

and can only be obtained from illegal sources

and very expensive

sa lahat ng raw material na pwede gamitin, cocaine?!

DUH!

[shadow]

it's the caffeine

there's no cocaine

amazing how easy people believe stuff like that

if the manufacturer of Red Bull does put a tiny amount cocaine in each bottle of Red Bull, they would have to order cocaine in bulk considering the volume of Red Bull they produce

so they have to source the cocaine from drug lords

may sense ba?

one of Red Bull's raw material is a controlled susbstance...

and can only be obtained from illegal sources

and very expensive

sa lahat ng raw material na pwede gamitin, cocaine?!

DUH!

so mali yun laboratory na nag test sa HK? and with all the experts there lahat sila mali ang nagawang tests, siguro naman meron cross examination, double or triple testing bago nila nilabas yun result....

ano naman ang mapapala ng mga technicians who came out with this results?

[jozef_10]

baka contaminated samples

[boybi]

Baka naman yung isang employee sa factory ng Red Bull e user ng coccaine, tapos accidentally naihalo nya dun sa ingredients ng Red Bull

[uls]

ok, here's why there are traces of cocaine in Red Bull

it's coz one of the raw materials used in Red Bull is coca leaves

it's not exactly cocaine

Red Bull's New Cola: A Kick from Cocaine?
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...l?iid=tsmodule

About a year ago, the makers of Red Bull, the famous caffeine-loaded energy drink, decided to come out with a soda, unsurprisingly named Red Bull Cola. The shared name implied the same big kick. But could the cola's boost — supposedly "100% natural" — come from something else? Officials in Germany worry that they've found the answer — cocaine. And now they have prohibited the soda's sale in six states across the country and may recommend a nation-wide ban.

"The [Health Institute in the state of North Rhine Westphalia] examined Red Bull Cola in an elaborate chemical process and found traces of cocaine," Bernhard Kuehnle, head of the food safety department at Germany's federal ministry for consumer protection, told the German press on Sunday. According to this analysis, the 0.13 micrograms of cocaine per can of the drink does not pose a serious health threat — you'd have to drink 12,000 L of Red Bull Cola for negative effects to be felt — but it was enough to cause concern. Kuehnle's agency is due to give its final verdict on Wednesday when experts publish their report.

Red Bull has always been upfront about the recipe for its new cola. Its website boasts colorful pictures of coca, cardamom and Kola nuts, along with other key "natural" ingredients. The company insists, however, that coca leaves are used as a flavoring agent only after removing the illegal cocaine alkaloid. "De-cocainized extract of coca leaf is used worldwide in foods as a natural flavoring," said a Red Bull spokesman in response to the German government's announcement. Though the cocaine alkaloid is one of 10 alkaloids in coca leaves and represents only 0.8% of the chemical makeup of the plant, it's removal is mandated by international antinarcotics agencies when used outside the Andean region.

Meanwhile, in Bolivia, halfway around the world and smack in the middle of the Andes, the controversy is causing chuckles. Coca is a fundamental part of Andean culture and for years, Bolivians have tried to get the world to understand that the leaf is not a drug if it's not put through the extensive chemical process that yields cocaine. Left-wing President Evo Morales, a coca-grower himself, has made coca validation a personal quest, chewing leaves in front of world leaders and press cameras during his travels. "Let's say [Red Bull Cola] doesn't take out the cocaine alkaloid. Have any of those millions of people across the world who have drunk that soda ever gotten sick or felt drugged?" asks Dionicio Nunez, a coca-growers' leader from the Yungas region. "We've always known that coca isn't harmful. Now maybe others will realize it too."

In Germany, the Red Bull spokesman insisted that his company's product, along with others containing the coca-leaf extract are considered safe in Europe and the U.S. And already, some experts have come to Red Bull's defense. "There is no scientific basis for this ban on Red Bull Cola because the levels of cocaine found are so small," Fritz Soergel, the head of the Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research in the city of Nuremberg, tells TIME. "And it's not even cocaine itself. According to the tests we carried out, it's a nonactive degradation product with no effect on the body. If you start examining lots of other drinks and food so carefully, you'd find a lot of surprising things," he says.

Coca leaves, of course, have a long record in modern soda-pop history. Most prominently, there was Coca-Cola whose original 19th century formula used unaltered coca leaves. In the early 1900s the company said it would only use "spent," or decocainized leaves, though the company refuses to confirm whether leaves in any form are still used.

But the problem is when it comes to coca and cocaine, it's not just a health concern, but a legal one. Since 1961, trade of coca outside the Andean region — where people have chewed or brewed coca in tea to stave off hunger and exhaustion for centuries — has been prohibited unless the cocaine alkaloid is removed. Few companies in the world have authorization to trade in the leaf and most are pharmaceutical companies that perform this decocainizing process. The most prominent is New Jersey-based Stepan Chemical Company which has been reported to supply Coca-Cola with its narcotic-free derivative.

But no one knows where Red Bull Cola's coca leaves come from or where they are processed. Red Bull did not respond to immediate requests for comment and Rauch Trading AG, the Austria-based food company that actually manufactures Red Bull Cola was quick to tell TIME that they are not allowed to speak about the product. Meanwhile, Bolivia, which has lots of coca leaves to sell, is getting a kick out of the fact Red Bull Cola admits to using coca in any form (since Coca-Cola evades the question). Ironically, the drink is not actually available yet in Bolivia. But, the locals say, this is a great opportunity to show that coca isn't harmful — with or without the cocaine alkaloid.

[dbuzz]

ok, here's why there are traces of cocaine in Red Bull

it's coz one of the raw materials used in Red Bull is coca leaves

it's not exactly cocaine

Red Bull's New Cola: A Kick from Cocaine?
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...l?iid=tsmodule

yan ang informasyon.

hindi yung basta sabi-sabi lang.

so talagang gumagamit ng coca leaves ang Red Bull para sa new product nilang 'Red Bull Cola' at may traces of cocaine nga(0.13microgram/can).

Now, how it appeared sa HK Red bull original energy drink ay yun ang dapat matuklas. surely the truth is not so far away.