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In April 2016, the web site News4KTLA published an article reporting that Coca-Cola had issued a recall on Dasani water products after a clear parasite was found in bottles across the United States: There was no truth to this article, which originated as a piece of fake news from News 4 KTLA, a clickbait site that mimics the appearance of a local television news station's online arm. News 4 KTLA carries no fiction or satire disclaimer anywhere on the site and has a history of publishing fearmongering stories based on little or no factual evidence). Coca-Cola did not issue a recall on Dasani products for any reason in April 2016 and noted in a statement that: The source of this false and inflammatory information about our brand is a hoax news website. There is no recall of Dasani being conducted in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration similarly said they were not aware of any current recalls or disease outbreaks associated with Dasani water. The News 4 KTLA site used an image of a Leptocephalus, a flat and transparent eel larva which is not a parasite, to illustrate the story. The original image came from the Mie Prefecture Fisheries Research Institute: If Coca-Cola really had issued a major recall after a parasite was discovered in several thousand bottles of Dasani water, leading to the hospitalization of several hundred people, that event would have been widely covered in the media, not limited exclusively to the clickbait site News 4 KTLA.
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