By Helen Collis PUBLISHED: 04:59 EST, 20 September 2013 | UPDATED: 11:42 EST, 20 September 2013 Drinks giant Coca-Cola has apologised to a family after it found 'You Retard' printed inside a bottle cap. Blake Loates, from Alberta, Canada, was shocked to read the insulting profanity as she drank from the low-calorie fruit drink. 'We immediately thought, you have got to be kidding me?' she told the Huffington Post Alberta. 'We thought it might been a disgruntled employee or someone in a (bottling) plant playing a joke,' she added. Scroll down for video Blake Loates sent this photo to her father Doug, who was appalled at the apparent insult printed in her daughter's soft drink
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Blake Loates, from Alberta, Canada, was shocked to read the insulting profanity as she drank from the low-calorie fruit drink
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She has two half sisters born premature who suffer varying disabilities
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Her father wrote to Coca-Cola underlining how offensive it was to the family
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Coca-Cola apologised, blamed a contest which prints French and English words on the bottom of some lids of the drink
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He explained that he has two young daughters, both born premature and consequently suffer disabilities, and two older daughters, including @placeholder, from his first marriage.
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The company told @placeholder it had a system in place to review the words that were printed, but in this case it could not explain how this profanity got through, the Huffington post said.