spurious bottle of Coca Cola ahmedabad

Tere ghar ke samne ek ‘fake’ pilaunga

Old Sachivalaya canteen, opposite the Food and Drugs Administration office, served spurious Coke
DILIP PATEL
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There was a disturbance of sorts in Old Sachivalaya canteen over a bottle of spurious Coca Cola on Wednesday. The matter has taken a serious turn with the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) officials having sent the sample for testing to the Food and Drugs Laboratory in Vadodara.
Legal action will be taken once the test report is received by FDA.
Samir Shah of Valsad, who had come to Gandhinagar on government-related work, visited the canteen and asked for a bottle of Coca Cola, his favourite soft drink. Much to his disgust, the drink he got had no fizz and tasted like coloured sweet water. The taste was so unlike the usual that he felt it was a fake.
Speaking to Mirror, Samir said, “Since it is my favourite brand, I am very familiar with the taste. This drink tasted weird. I immediately complained to the manager of the canteen and asked for another bottle.”
The canteen is run by the Government Employee Cooperative Society which has hired contractor Kamlesh Upadhyaya.
The manager, Suresh Patel, refused to give him another bottle and shouted at Shah. He said he had given him the bottle from the stock he had got from the company’s dealer in Gandhinagar. The entire staff of the canteen gathered around Shah, in support of Patel. They told him he could take any action he wanted.
Shah went to the FDA office nearby and complained about the spurious Coke bottle.
At once, three food inspectors came to the canteen and checked the stock of the soft drinks in the fridge. They started official proceedings immediately.
Senior food inspector B M Trivedi said, “The bottle belonged to batch no. 37/A dated April 5, 2010. I have sent that bottle and another belonging to the same batch and date and sent them for testing to Vadodara.”
He said the colour of the liquid and bottle that the complainant had drunk was different from that of the other samples. Moreover, the bottle which Shah had drunk from had Coca Cola written on one side and Coke on the other side while the other bottle had Coca Cola printed on both sides. “I am shocked to find such fake cold drinks in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, where people come from all corners of the state. That’s why I decided to take action,” said Shah.