Science Fair Project Exposes GlaxoSmithKline Lies 253
shadowspar writes "Despite claims made by GlaxoSmithKline that their Ribena soft drinks are high in Vitamin C, two New Zealand high school students found in their science fair research project that at least some formulations of the drink contained no detectable levels of the vitamin. As a result, GSK has been fined over $200,000 by the NZ Commerce Commission and ordered to run newspaper ads admitting that some of their drinks contain no Vitamin C."
companies must think we are truly dumb. (Score:5, Interesting)
our bodies that do not contain the ingredients listed on the
can. Not quite the pet food disaster that happened to animals,
but it is getting closer.
Like i tell others, until babies die from baby food, no one
will string the company owners up to the nearest tree.
I like their style (Score:5, Interesting)
Only $200k? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Only a numpty (most consumers) buy their produc (Score:1, Interesting)
This is great news for me (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:sugar causes obesity (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm afraid i don't find your earlier comment very "insightful", particularly in view of this latest addition. It seems that what you're actually saying is that you can feel better about your sedentary lifestyle if you drink aspartame based drinks rather than sugar based ones. And possibly improve your risk factors slightly too. But thats about as insightful as suggesting that walking down the middle of a freeway "with the flow of traffic" is safer than going "against the flow of traffic". Its true, but it wilfully ignores the real risk.
Oh, and this thread is not about marathon runners. Nor even about health freaks. Its about the benefits of a sensible lifestyle. And how in the context of such a lifestyle the choice "sugar or aspartame?" is about as important as "red tie or green tie?".
Re:companies must think we are truly dumb. (Score:1, Interesting)
Dead babies: check
Strung-up execs:
Re:Seinfeld saw this coming (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Only $200k? (Score:5, Interesting)
See, before we even get to the possible benefits of vitamin C, we already have good reason to believe 90mg/day is an unnaturally low number. We, as a species, suffer from hypoascorbia due to a genetic defect. The fact that it hasn't killed us doesn't mean it's healthy. Not all mutations are good. If vitamin C is so inconsequential, why did all animal life evolve to produce so much of it?
Re:Only a numpty (most consumers) buy their produc (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:sugar (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:in a perfect world (Score:3, Interesting)
think of aspartame as methadone for the heroin that is sugar, and accept that some humpty dumpties need it, and all of the evils of aspartame you describe is still less evil than continuing to consume sugar
the latest research that I heard differs (Score:3, Interesting)
The BBC reported a year or more ago that the latest research suggests that supplements can reduce the duration of a cold once you've got it but don't do anything for prevention - my current use of Vit.C follows this, I take on orange juice and citrus fruit when I have a cold and occassionally even have tablets.
Member of the Finnish DOH and an epidemiology expert >>>"Duration of cold episodes that occurred during prophylaxis was significantly reduced in both children and adults. For children this represented an average reduction of 14% in symptom days, while in adults the reduction was 8%."
See http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?reques
That all sounds like it "helps
Re:Only $200k? (Score:2, Interesting)
Credit where credit's due? (Score:2, Interesting)