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Pepsi bottler to construct Europe’s largest bottling factory, worth $150 million, in Romania

Pepsi bottling company is investing $150 million (euro105 million) to construct Europe’s largest bottling factory in Romania, officials said Monday.

The industrial unit will be located west of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, and will cover over 30,000 square meters. It will open on Sept.1, 2009.

In 2007, PepsiAmericas took over the group of Quadrant-Amroq Bottling QAB, a Pepsi producer and distributor in Romania.

The two production units for QAB Romania are in Bucharest and the other one in Covasna, in central Romania.

In Soviet communist rule, Pepsi was the only western soft drink that could be bought in Romania. Contender Coca Cola only appeared on the market in Romania after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1989.

Pepsi Company announced previously this month it achieved an agreement to take over its two largest U.S. Pepsi bottlers, Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas, in a $7.8 billion (euro5.45 billion) cash and stock deal.

PepsiAmericas sales were down upto 6 percent in the second quarter to $1.26 billion (euro880 million) compared with $1.34 billion in the same period a year before.

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All nonprescription, over-the-counter (OTC) medicine labels have detailed usage and warning information so consumers can properly choose and use the products.

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* Active Ingredient: Therapeutic substance in product; amount of active ingredient per unit.
* Uses: Symptoms or diseases the product will treat or prevent.
* Warnings: When not to use the product; conditions that may require advice from a doctor before taking the product; possible interactions or side effects; when to stop taking the product and when to contact a doctor; if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, seek guidance from a health care professional; keep product out of children’s reach.
* Inactive Ingredients: Substances such as colors or flavors.
* Purpose: Product action or category (such as antihistamine, antacid, or cough suppressant.
* Directions: Specific age categories, how much to take, how to take, and how often and how long to take.
* Other Information: How to store the product properly and required information about certain ingredients (such as the amount of calcium, potassium, or sodium the product contains)