Did Colombias largest soft drink company use vulnerable children as lab rats?
Source: Colombia Reports
by Adriaan Alsema February 15, 2018
Colombia’s largest soft drink company, Postobon, was already in trouble for allegedly sponsoring death squads. Now it is accused of using children who are vulnerable to malnutrition for the testing of new drinks.
The accusation that Postobon used 200 children in the impoverished La Guajira province for testing a new product followed an investigation by a group of news outlets and think tanks.
According to the media, Postobon initiated a program to provide drinks among 1,200 highly vulnerable children to “contribute to the nutrition of school-going children.”
The company introduced a new drink, Kufu, that contained chemical supplements that have not been certified, said the League Against Silence.
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