hmmm- the missus is a "spokesman" (aka PR) for GSK- I wonder what she'd have to say about this.

I really hope someone out there will independently verify their claims about their UK products.

I presume we're not just going to trust them on this one...

its a shocking coincidence that the one region where this 'independent test' was carried out is the one and only region that their claims are false in!

what are the chances of that?

Anyone remember that incident where another schoolgirl demonstrated that Theraputic Touch ("TT") is nonsense?

.... I heard that there might even be traces of real food in a certain, popular, Scottish sounding hamburger restuarants offerings as well !!

Amazing.

Vitamin C aside, I used to live close to a Ribena bottling plant. The drums of concentrate were covered in HazChem "toxic" symbols. Made me look at the drink in a new light, I can tell you.

GSK bought C-Vit and now I can't find it anywhere. CVit was supposed to have 100% RDA of C in about a pint of diluted drink. Wierd that they killed it off...

All these artificial drinks trying to appear healthy; "Our drink contains no artificial flavours" - "Contains no artificial colours" - "Now with 50% less vegetable fat"...

What's wrong with juice? You know - squeezed out of fruit?

How could we forget /that/ incident? The court order they took out against you doesn't expire until 2015!

This makes me think about a clause in Microsoft's EULA - you know, the one about not being allowed to publish the results of any benchmark tests of Windows performance without permission from Microsoft?

What's the bet we'll soon start seeing EULA's on product labels like:

"You are licensed ONLY to consume this product. By opening this bottle, you agree not to analyse, reverse engineer, disassemble or perform any other test, chemical or otherwise, or to publish, distribute, or otherwise disseminate results arising from any such test, without the prior written permission of the manufacturer".

Then high school experiments like this could land those girls (and their school) in an RIAA-type lawsuit! The mind boggles... but it wouldn't surprise me in the least.