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Hello and thanks for downloading the Witness Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Claire Bowes. And today we're going back to Belgium in

1999 when teenagers started to become ill after drinking Coca-Cola. Many ended up in

hospital and the government banned the sale of all Coca-Cola products.

But the fizzy drink was eventually given the all clear.

So what was making the children sick?

I've been speaking to a Belgian toxicologist about a country

gripped by anxiety.

In the past few minutes, Luxembourg has joined Belgium in banning Coca-Cola products from the shells.

Drinks including Fanta, Sprite and Coca- being withdrawn after more than 100 children fell ill.

The crisis had begun in the first week of June

when a dozen school children reported

feeling sick. At some stage in the afternoon these children reported sick and

the school nurse tried to find out what was happening.

Ben Nemery was a toxicologist at the University of Lervyn in Belgium.

What did they eat? What did they drink? And the only thing that was common to all children was that they had been drinking Coca-Cola and

allegedly there was a bad smell or a strange smell in the drinks.

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