New Delhi, Aug 28: A government research institute today revealed that some of the soft drink samples from Pepsi and Coke contained much higher levels of pesticides like Lindane and DDT than permissible under the European Union norms. The report of the central food laboratory, released by the government here, said that pesticide Lindane was present in all the soft drinks that were tested but was higher by 1.1 to 1.4 times the European norms in 33 per cent of the samples. Likewise, many of the samples contained DDT and metabolites above the EEC norms, it added. Another pesticide Chlorpyriphos was also present in all the samples, it said. Bureau Report