Red Bull pulled from shelves in Hong Kong

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Red Bull will be pulled from supermarkets in Hong Kong authorities said they found traces of cocaine in the popular energy drink, Agence France-Presse reported. The story is at most e-mail on Yahoo News. Redbullxx-blog200 A few days ago, Taiwanese authorities confiscated close to 18,000 cases from Austria for the same reason. Hong Kong Center for Food Safety found traces of cocaine from 0.1 to 0.3 micrograms of the drug illegal per liter - not enough to endanger health. Commissioner for Narcotics Sally Wong said the Government to investigate whether importers and distributors can be held liable. A Red Bull said the company's independent tests no cocaine. "It would have been absolutely impossible for the Hong Kong or any other authorities to have found traces of cocaine in Red Bull Energy Drink," said Daniel Beatty, Asia-Pacific marketing director. "We expect the Hong Kong authorities to recognize their error soon." Beatty also said the representative of the company were already familiar with Taiwanese authorities on the errors. Comments Please login to post comments or replies.