Tag: Pepsi Co

• Tuesday, April 28th 2015 - 20:53 UTC

  Pepsi changes artificial sweetener over consumer concerns about its safety

  

  A controversial artificial sweetener is being removed from Diet Pepsi in the US amid consumer concerns about its safety. Aspartame-free cans of the drink will go on sale from August in America, but not in Britain. However regulators in the UK and the US insist aspartame is still safe to use in soft drinks.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 07:16 UTC

  Green Coke with natural sweetener stevia launched in Argentina

  

  Coca Cola has used their familiar and distinctive curved script since 1887 and since the 1920s their famous logo has been placed on a red background on the company's classic cola. But the soda brand is now going green, at least in Argentina.

• Friday, January 13th 2012 - 22:37 UTC

  Brazil's orange juice threatened by the discovery of the fungicide carbendazim

  

  Orange-juice futures rebounded from the biggest two-day slump since 2008 on renewed concern that a US government probe of imports from Brazil will tighten supplies. The Food and Drug Administration said it will detain all imports that contain carbendazim, a fungicide that isn’t approved for oranges in the US.