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I am always here... I think we may see some positive response this week as investors can physically see things are getting done. I think we will be rewarded with a few ticks this week. If we get solid done deals maybe more than a few!!
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I agree Robbie. I think we may just move a tic or two up. Not much else will happen. The MM's will make a move back down to see if they can shake any more shares loose this week, but won't get too far with it without moving it back up. This one is being watched closely by a lot of people. They have not made a move yet, and if they are not carefull will get left behind even if trading.
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Yup, down one tic. But it was interesting that at open this morning we had a stair from 26 to 30, with no breaks. Just not enough yet to allow the MM's to move it to 30. Not yet......
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I'm here every day folks, at noon and after work, like now. I'm here with ya, in for the long. Things are going to improve, imo. I have alot of faith in what is going on. I would also like to commend you guys (you know who you are) for keeping the faith along with me. jp.
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Good Morning to all. I had a dream last night that we were in the green. I hope it is a prophecy and not just mere entertainment while I slept.
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The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in India reported on August 5, 2003 that pesticides had been found in twelve brands of Indian soft drinks. CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory (PML) analyzed samples of bottled soft drinks for 16 organochlorine pesticides, 12 organophosphorus pesticides and 4 synthetic pyrethroides, all of which are used extensively in India. The soft drink brands tested were Blue Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Fanta, Limca, Mirinda Orange, Mirinda Lemon, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Sprite, Thums Up and 7-Up.
Lindane, an organochlorine pesticide applied to seeds before planting and used pharmaceutically to treat lice and scabies, was found in every brand of soft drink tested. Lindane persists in the environment, contaminates surface and ground water and accumulates in fat tissues. Highest concentrations of lindane found by PML were 0.0042 mg/L, or 42 times the European Economic Commission (EEC) standard for drinking water. For all twelve brands, lindane concentrations averaged 21 times the EEC standard.
The organophosphate pesticide DDT and its metabolites (DDD and DDE) were detected in 81% of the samples tested. Average DDT and metabolite concentrations were 15 times European limits. Chlorophyrifos, a neurotoxin and a special risk to pregnant women, was also found in all of the samples, with average concentrations 42 times the EEC standard. Malathion was detected in 97% of the samples, highest in a Mirinda Lemon sample at 196 times the European standard. Malathion detected in Coca-Cola was 137 times greater than EEC drinking water standards.
In February 2003, the CSE tested bottled drinking water and also found pesticides in 17 different Indian labels. The same laboratory detected lindane DDT, malathion and chlorpyrifos in all of the bottled water samples tested, except for Evian, which is imported. As a result of that report, the Indian government announced in July that new standards for pesticide residues in bottled water will go into effect in January 2004.
Pepsi and Coca Cola, multinational companies based in the U.S., each have large shares of the Indian bottled soft drink market. Coca-Cola and Pepsi officials in India immediately disputed CSE's soft drink findings and called for a new round of laboratory testing. Pepsi appealed to the Indian courts to stop publication of the CSE report, calling the research methods "suspect." On August 12, 2003 an Indian court ordered the federal government to test Pepsi samples for pesticides, and the Delhi High Court asked the government to develop new and tougher standards for pesticide contaminants in soft drinks.
Meanwhile, sales of bottled soft drinks in India have plummeted, and several states in India have moved to test soft drinks, with one state refusing to allow Pepsi and Coke products to be shipped from bottling plants until they were tested as a "precautionary measure."
In the U.S. and Europe, legally enforceable standards regulate water used in bottled drinks, however Indian laws currently exclude bottled soft drinks and water from regulations concerning pesticides in food. CSE says that soft drink manufacturers and the bottled water industry in India use large quantities of ground water, which has become increasingly contaminated as levels have dropped dramatically in many parts of the country.
CSE maintains that "pesticides are in manufactured consumables because there are pesticides in the 'raw water' used. There are pesticides in the source water because there are pesticides being blatantly used in fields. Thus any policy to provide consumers in India with quality consumables can do nothing until it takes into account these deadly chemicals."
Sources: Colanisation's Dirty Dozen, Bottled Water Norms Notified, Down to Earth, Science and Environment on-line, http://www.downtoearth.org.in, Hindu Business Line, August 5, 2003, Pepsi, Coke soft drinks contain pesticides: CSE, Pepsi to be Tested for Toxins in India, Reuters, August 12, 2003, CSE Press Release, August 13, 2003.
Contact: Centre for Science and the Environment, 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-110062, India, phone (91 011) 260-66854, 260-59810, 299-55410, 299-55781, 299-56394; fax (91 011) 299-55879; email: cse*cseindia.org; http://www.cseindia.org
PANUPS is a weekly email news service providing resource guides and reporting on pesticide issues that don't always get coverage by the mainstream media. It's produced by Pesticide Action Network North America, a non-profit and non-governmental organization working to advance sustainable alternatives to pesticides worldwide.
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NEW DELHI -- Two more Indian states banned the sale of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo soft drinks at government-run schools and colleges.
At issue are allegations that products made in India have high levels of pesticides.
The move follows claims last week by a research group in New Delhi that the soft drinks have levels of pesticides that far exceed national standards.
Both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo insist their drinks are safe.
Sales of the two companies' drinks have been hit since New Delhi's Center for Science and Environment said tests on samples of the soft drinks contained pesticide residues that were 24 times higher than Indian standards.
The center said almost all soft drinks sold in India contain high levels of pesticides, but the focus was on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo because the two account for nearly 80 percent of India's more than $2 billion soft drink market.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Stores across Belgium removed all beverages of the Coca Cola Co. from their shelves today, complying with a ban prompted by the hospitalizations of people who got sick after drinking Coke products.
For a second consecutive day, poison alert centers across Belgium received hundreds of phone calls from people seeking information. Some callers said they too had become nauseous after drinking Coke or Coca Cola brands.
On Monday, Health Minister Luc Van den Bossche banned all sales of Coke and Coca Cola brands such as Fanta, Sprite, Aquarius, Bonaqua and Minute Maid fruit juices.
``We are hard at work trying to find the cause of the problems,'' said Maureen O'Sullivan, a spokeswoman for Coca Cola in Belgium. ``We are also implementing a total recall of our products.''
The ban was imposed after nearly 50 people, most of them young people, were hospitalized Monday suffering from nausea after drinking Coke products. Eight remained in the hospital today.
Last Thursday, 31 school children fell ill after drinking Coke, forcing the company to recall 2.5 million bottles.
At least one person hospitalized showed symptoms of hemolysis, an excessive destruction of red blood cells that causes anemia and vomiting.
Health inspectors were checking the packaging of Coke products as well as the contents.
Tests were conducted at Coca Cola's bottling plants in the cities of Antwerp and Ghent, as well as at its plant just across the border in Dunkirk, France.
``We have been working and continue to work around the clock to identify the reasons behind the product complaints,'' said Robert Baskin, a Coca Cola spokesman in the United States.
He said the cases appear to be isolated to Belgium, where those who became ill reported a foul odor on the outside of cans and bottles.
``I think what we have are symptoms of nausea likely induced by the off odor,'' Baskin said, adding the company has no evidence the cans or products caused any ill effects.
Baskin said tests run by Coca-Cola and an independent lab found nothing wrong with other beverages in the same vending machines. Additional test results were pending.
The ban comes as Belgium is still reeling from revelations that cancer-causing dioxin had entered the food chain through animal feed in recent months. That led the government to forbid sales of chicken, pork, beef, eggs and meat products.
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Glad I do not have stock in Coke or Pepsi right now. I think there may be an even bigger push for "organic" type drinks comming. Wasn't that one of the things they were pushing for at RSHN?
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Sorry chklingon, it's normaly pretty quiet in here at this time , thought i could do a double post. I'm not going anywhere, just trying to lighten it up. lol. jp.
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quote:Originally posted by jp: How bout nooooo. Sorry, your stuck with me. LETS GO RSHN. jp.
jp, looking at your post, am thinking first you want to sell it and leave, but then you smell big$$$, and change your mind, didn't you ?? That's the reason, you edit your post ! Ha, what about that theory ?
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quote:Originally posted by jp: How bout nooooo. Sorry, your stuck with me. LETS GO RSHN. jp.
jp, looking at your post, am thinking first you want to sell it and leave, but then you smell big$$$, and change your mind, didn't you ?? That's the reason, you edit your post ! Ha, what about that theory ?
I forgot to put a comma after sorry. rotflol. I have no intention of selling, not until we get a very good run anyway and then i'll buy on the dips. jp.
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lol, i have to be provoked for a joke, LOL. All jokes i know, sound stupid. There is a silence on all RSHN Boards, nobody around.....maybe storm soon. Somebody posted today, that same silence was around before first run to a penny.
what's rotflol ? mmmhh, that's how you edit, LOL
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i was guessing 'r' as something about reading......you can be right or no, blast will happened sooner or later, just patience needed, and if any dry powder left, accumulation, IMO.
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