Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> Steve wrote about peach Nehi:
>
>> They're available in cans and plastic bottles.
>> http://www.scottsiconiumstore.com/nehi.htm
>>
>>> *mumble-mumble...kill the politicians...grumble...*
>>
>> Nehi could just change their bottle. The same as Snapple and other
>> drink manufacturers did for Texas and other states that don't allow
>> glass bottles in public.
>
> The bottle is fine; California has no problem with glass bottles.
> (Imagine the outcry from wineries if *that* happened!) But Nehi uses
> some form of sweetener or dye that is on the LONG California list of
> potential carcinogens. So California requires some kind of disclosure
> label similar to the Surgeon General's warning on packs of cigarettes.
> Nehi apparently decided that it would be too much trouble to comply,
> so they simply pulled their wares out of California.

I think everything is on the California list. Even my apartment
building is posted with "...known to be carcinogens" signs.


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