It appears that Coca Cola uses a product called "decocainized flavor
essence of the coca leaf" that is created in the U.S. from the coca
leaf. The Stepan Company (a $400 million American Stock Exchange
company) of Maywood, New Jersey imports and processes the Coca Leaf.
Sources:
From http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/formula.asp
"at least one of the ingredients called for in the recipe would be
next to impossible to secure in the U.S. (or to bring into the
country): decocainized flavor essence of the coca leaf. As it now
stands, only Stepan Co.'s New Jersey plant possesses the necessary DEA
permit to import the leaves and remove the cocaine from them."
http://www.uic.edu/classes/osci/osci590/9_3%20The%20Legal%20Importation%20of%20Coca%20Leaf.htm
"The Stepan Company (a $400 million American Stock Exchange company)
of Maywood, New Jersey imports 175,000 KG of coca leaves into the
United States each year. The leaves come from some of the same farms
that supply the Columbian drug cartels. Its finished products end up
into nearly everyone in the United States. "
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/fed_regs/imprt/reg/2004/fr031114.htm
"Stepan Company, Natural Products Dept., 100 W. Hunter Avenue,
Maywood, New Jersey, made application by renewal to the Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be registered as an importer of
Coca Leaves (9040), a basic class of controlled substance listed in
Schedule II."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4055036,00.html
But the only company which has managed to get round the ban is the
Stepan company of the US. In one of the howling ironies of the coca
war, it legally imports 175,000 kilos of Chapare coca each year to
manufacture, among other things, a de-cocainised flavouring for
Coca-Cola.
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