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La canette de Coca-Cola - The Coca-Cola Can

Publié le 06/11/2012

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centertop00 Research on a Coca-Cola Can sold by the Multinational Corporation The Coca-Cola Company in the Hexagon. I- The Coca-Cola Company is a beverage company that owns more than 500 nonalcoholic beverage brands in more than 200 countries. As it is universally acknowledged, it's most notorious product is Coca-Cola invented in 1886, and now taking the form of different flavor's including Cherry, Vanilla, or even Lemon. The company's headquarters is situated in Atlanta, Georgia, where Coca-Cola was first sold in a pharmacy. It's current chairman and chief executive is Muhtar Kent, who took control of the company in 2008. The company has 146,200 employees and 300 bottling partners who are responsible for manufacturing the beverages and distributing them to local grocery stores, restaurants and street vendors around the world. These "partners" are implanted all around in the globe, in all 5 continents, although Asia is the dominant production country. The biggest Coca-Cola consumers are Mexico, Chili and the United States of America. Without the Globalization process, none of this would have been possible. II- We are only going to focuse on ...

« each can is highly polluting 170g of CO2 per cans equivalent to 1kilometer by a car.

The Green Team of Coca-Cola is making huge efforts and the cans are 55%. Social: Water does not display the same properties everywhere, the taste of Coke varies from one country to another.

In Kerala, the Cola even had a bitter taste.

In 2006, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have been banned in the Indian state.

Soda giants were accused of draining groundwater at the expense of farmers, and cola contained pesticide residues "beyond the limits considered safe," according to the Centre for Science and Environment. Drinks “light” (Coca-Cola light for instance) of the multinational experience has a big success.

But aspartame, the artificial sweetener that replaces sugar, is a carcinogen.

The European Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences has tested 1800 rats.

"This team has also found a doubling of tumors in rats exposed to it," says André Cicollela researcher in environmental health.

Coca Should therefore "sweeten" the aspartame? "Undoubtedly," slice toxicologist.

This is not in the program responded the multinational "We are working on new sweeteners, aspartame but remain the principal.

Of 200 studies, the majority concludes that there is no connection with the development of cancer.

Economical : In China, based on undercover investigations at several Coke plants, Chinese press reported in December 2008 that Coke employees are "involved in the most dangerous, intense and tiresome labor, work the longest hours, but receive the lowest wages and face arrears and even cutbacks in their pay." One investigator claimed that Coke violated Chinese labor laws and reported that workers "often worked 12 hours per day for an entire month without a single day off." Coca-Cola is therefore exploiting minorities in order to earn more profit. Political: In 2006 in Kerala, an Indian region, Coca-Cola was banned from the market.

Indeed, the cola had a bitter taste and the company was accused of taking all the groundwater, making life impossible for farmers.

In addition, the cola was believed to contain way too high levels of pesticides, and could therefore have a negative effect on health. In China, a plant was temporarily closed after an anonymous denunciation, of a high presence of chlorine in the Coca-Cola produced.

Indeed, a high rate of chlorine is dangerous for the human being.

The company had to make a public apology saying they had “some problems over a period in the past failed to give a timely report on the situation to the superintendent departments, media and the public. Hugo Denizet & Thibault-A.

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