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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Re: Re: The Secret of Coca Cola - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 14:30:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 19 14:30:27 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


Actually, what I said was (read it) "no medicinal use".  This doesn't mean
"completely inactive".  I don't know if they ever did a complete analysis
of the remnants for alkaloid fractions with interesting properties.  It
seems likely they would, for obvious reasons.

Hutch