evidence: Cocaine claim [edit]In May 2009, food regulators from Germany discovered trace amounts of cocaine from coca leaf extracts in Red Bull Simply Cola, Pepsi One, and Diet Coke. Red Bull GmbH responded by insisting that only de-cocainised coca leaf extracts are used in the production of Red Bull Cola.[6] The amounts in question are minute, around 0.13 micrograms of cocaine in a can of Red Bull Cola, so about 100,000 liters of the cola would need to be consumed for the cocaine to be harmful, according to Bernhard Hoffman, a food scientist for North Rhine-Westphalia who conducted the Red Bull study. Despite this, the drink was ordered off the shelves in the German states of Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate.[7][8] After the German Institute for Risk Assessment declared the product safe in a study,[9] the drink was put back on sale from 24 August 2009 onwards. [...] - ^ Chris Losh. "Red Bull calms Simply Cola cocaine claims". Just-drinks.com. Retrieved 21 October 2012. [...] - ^ FRIEDMAN-RUDOVSKY, JEAN (2 June 2009). "Red Bull's New Cola: A Kick from Cocaine?". Time. Archived from the original on 24 May 2012.