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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Re: Re: The Secret of Coca Cola - (nf)
Message-ID: <3652@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Mar-84 18:44:44 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 17 18:44:44 1984
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"............................The extracts currently used are flavoring
only, and have no medicinal use..."

I have heard that this is an assumption, not a proven fact.  The cocaine
is removed from the flavoring extracts, but (as with most natural products)
nobody has an exhaustive list of what compounds are still in there.  It's
not impossible that some "active" substances might remain.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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