Japanese man sues Coca-Cola for hair loss after drinking tainted Coke...
A Japanese national has filed a lawsuit against an Indonesian subsidiary of
U.S.-based Coca-Cola Co, claiming he suffered hair loss after drinking a bottle
of Coke containing a piece of mosquito coil, his lawyer said Friday.
Lawyer Ike Farida said that Masaharu Takasu filed the lawsuit against P.T. Coca-Cola
Indonesia at the South Jakarta District Court on Thursday.
He is also suing P.T. Coca-Cola Distribution Indonesia, P.T. Coca-Cola Bottling
Indonesia, the government's Food and Drug Monitoring Agency and the vendor who
sold him the contaminated Coke, Farida said.
"Our client has lost some of his hair since he drank the Coke," Farida
said.
According to the lawyer, the incident occurred last Oct 19 when Takasu bought
and drank two-fifths of a 193-milliliter bottle of Coke in the South Jakarta
district of Bintaro. Soon after, he felt a burning sensation in his throat and
chest, developed a headache and also felt queasy.
Upon inspecting the inside of the Coke bottle, he was shocked to find a piece
of mosquito coil floating on the beverage. He immediately went to the Bintaro
International Hospital for medical treatment and filed a complaint to Coca-Cola.
Farida said the beverage company agreed to pay his expenses for the hospital
treatment and offered him two dozen Cokes for free.
