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.
>
> Bob
>
>
I thought the problem was the ink on the outside of the bottle, that it
was found to have something harmful to the reproductive systems. The
fear was that the bottles would end up in the landfills and the toxins
would filter into the watershed and pollute the drinking water for
California. It was in violation of Prop. 65 the Clean Water Act.

Melondy