After an incident at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Austria, the company is recalling millions of bottles. In the affected production facility of Coca-Cola HBC Austria, a sieve broke, which could have possibly allowed small metal particles to enter bottles of the brands Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, and MezzoMix. Around 28 million 0.5-liter bottles with best-before dates between February 4 and April 12, 2025, are affected by the recall.

According to the company, only "minimal quantities" of these bottles have landed on the German market, as it is primarily supplied by the bottler CCEP Germany. Only a few bottles from Austria could have been exported to Germany, primarily to the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Thuringia.

To distinguish them, the unaffected bottles can be identified by the manufacturer's print "Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Deutschland GmbH" on the back as well as the German DPG deposit logo on the label. The German consumer portal "Lebensmittelwarnung" published the information for consumers to prevent potential health risks.