Delta denies contamination as court hears maggot-in-Coke case

Consumer health risk from contaminated beverage; potential exposure to harmful substances from consumption of product with foreign particles.

In a Harare courtroom, a small bottle of Coca-Cola has become the vessel for a much larger question: when something goes wrong between factory and consumer, who bears the weight of that failure? A man bought a drink from a street vendor in October 2023, found what a government laboratory identified as maggots inside, and the legal machinery that followed has placed Delta Corporation and a street vendor side by side before a magistrate. The case turns not only on what was in the bottle, but on how far a manufacturer's responsibility extends once a product leaves its hands and enters the informa

Delta denies contamination as court hears maggot-in-Coke case

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