1. Coca-Cola is to recall all bottles of its Dasani water in the UK, after levels of bromate were found to exceed legal levels. "This is very surprising for a company as careful and deliberate as Coca-Cola, and a blow to the trust they're aiming to build with consumers as well as their strategy to diversify into drinks that can't be linked to obesity, such as water." -BBC News 2. The Coca-Cola group of companies in Japan said Monday they will recall a total of 570,000 bottles of six types of soft drinks, as they have found iron powder to have mingled with the products.-Japan Economic Newswire Via 3. Coca-Cola has recalled 40,000 cases of soft drinks in South Korea and claimed it was the victim of a blackmail campaign, after a consumer was allegedly poisoned by drinking a bottle of Coke. It is Coca-Cola's second large-scale recall in the southeast Asia region in the last three months. The group withdrew around 2.4m bottles in Japan this May, including flagship brands Coke and Fanta, amid concerns that iron powder had leaked into drinks at one of its Japanese factories. -Food Quality News 4. Coca-Cola Recalls Water in Poland After Bacteria Are Found. In its second beverage recall in Poland this week, the Coca-Cola Company said yesterday that it was removing all half-liter bottles of its Bonaqua Plus purified water from stores because Polish Government scientists had detected coliform bacteria in the product. Coliform bacteria is a type of E-coli having caused outbreaks of severe illness and even death, particularly among young children, the elderly and others with limited immune systems. The presence of E-coli ''is an indication there was fecal contamination somewhere along the line,'' said Dennis Juranek, associate director of the division of parasitic diseases at the Centers for Disease Control. About 180,000 bottles of the water had already been distributed by the bottler, Coca-Cola Beverages, and were being pulled from the market, a Coca-Cola spokeswoman, Sonya Soutus, said. All of them will be destroyed, along with thousands more bottles that were in warehouses awaiting shipment, she said. -New York Times 5. Coke Products Are Ordered Off the Shelves in Four Countries. In the biggest recall in Coke history, the Governments of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have ordered products from the Coca-Cola Company off their shelves after dozens of people who drank the soft drinks became ill. The recall, which affects less than 1 percent of Coke's global sales, is another public blow for Coca-Cola, which last year sold $18.8 billion worth of soft drinks around the world but has been struggling with declining volume in many regions.- New York Times