Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: Re: Re: The Secret of Coca Cola - (nf) Message-ID: <630@shark.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 14:30:27 EST Article-I.D.: shark.630 Posted: Mon Mar 19 14:30:27 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 02:31:11 EST References: <3652@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 17 || "............................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