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In the United States, a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey has a license to legally import coca leaf.

The company manufactures pure cocaine for medical use and also produces a cocaine-free extract of the coca leaf, which is used as a flavoring ingredient in Coca-Cola.

Other companies have 2011 registrations with the DEA to legally import coca leaf according to 2011 Federal Register Notices for Importers, including Johnson Matthey, Inc, Pharmaceutical Materials ; Mallinckrodt Inc ; Penick Corporation ; and the Research Triangle Institute.

According to the Bolivian press, Coca-Cola legally imported 204 tons of coca leaf in 1996.