Coke trucks in Belgium were bedecked with huge signs proclaiming "your Coca-Cola is back," and full-page ads appearing in major Belgian newspapers declared, "the problems that affected some of our products are completely solved." But in Warsaw, Coca-Cola co. was expanding a recall.

Although no illnesses have been reported in Poland, a health ministry expert said sampling at the plant discovered E.Coli. Some forms of the bacteria can cause illness and death, but experts said that while they were trying to identify the type of E.Coli involved, the amount found at the Coca-Cola plant in southwest Poland was so small that it posed no health risk.

Coca-Cola said thebacteria detected was not hazardous. Ron Pugsley, general-director of Coca-Cola Poland, told a news conference that an estimated 180,000 plastic half-litre containers of bonaqa plus mineral water were being pulled off store shelves for failing to meet quality standards.