It has been connected to potentially dangerous health issues, particularly in youngsters. Coca-Cola claimed that it conducted normal safety inspections.
At its facility in the city of Ghent and traced the issue back to a single container used in the water treatment process when it announced the recall throughout Europe.
Consumers would need to ingest large amounts of any chlorate-contaminated product, according to experts, in order to experience vomiting or other severe illnesses.
“It is almost non-existent or very unlikely that those large quantities are present in it,” Philippe Jorens, a professor of poisons and critical care.
At Antwerp University Hospital, told Belgian public television VTM. “You have to have consumed so many different bottles of it to possibly see an effect.”
