Two teenagers in New Zealand performed a test on a popular children’s drink, Ribena, as part of their chemistry assignment. The company (GlaxoSmithKline) claimed “4 times the vitamin C as found in oranges.” The experiment found almost no vitamin C at which point the girls assumed they had done something wrong in the procedure.

But alas, they repeated their experiment several times and asked others to do the same and the result did not change. GSK now faces 15 charges of misleading the public and up to $2M in fines…

I’ll bet this is a chemistry lesson the teenagers won’t soon forget (nor will the GSK marketroids…)