PITTSBURGH -- A Colorado coroner announced Wednesday that the object found in a man's bottle of fruit punch called Ora was mold and not a body part, as first suspected.

Juan Sanchez-Marchez told police in the Denver suburb of Commerce City that he drank almost the entire bottle of Ora Potency Fruit Punch when he made the discovery of what he and a pathologist thought was a 3-inch section of a human penis. The discover is pictured at the left.

Adams County, Colo., Coroner Richard Amend said that tests determined that the object was baterial growth mold, and not human tissue.

A sample will be forwarded to the Federal Drug Administration's forensic laboratory for exact determination of the organism.

Also, the FDA notified the local police department on Tuesday that the distributor, Denver-based Vancol Industries Inc., discovered a second bottle with an unknown substance floating in it. It was described by the coroner's staff as "a cylindrical object." Testing on that substance has not been completed.

There is no further criminal investigation pending at this time.

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The energy drinks are manufactured by Three Rivers Bottling of New Kensington, Pa.

In a statement released Monday, Three Rivers Bottling general manager Tom Petro said:

"It's unbelievable. I'm convinced 100 percent the bottle wasn't tampered with here or at any other bottling company.

"There's no way it could have entered the bottle. Bottles here are rinsed and washed upside down.

"Any contaminants would have fallen out. They are then visually inspected by at least eight people."

The company vice president on Monday also said he was convinced that the alleged body part was put into the bottle after it was shipped to Colorado, partly because the production date was a year ago and there are no preservatives in the drink.

"I don't see where our product would be able to preserve an object like that without some decomposition," Vancol's VP Chris Terranova said Monday.

Sanchez-Marchez said that he bought several of the drinks at a grocery store in Commerce City. He drank that particular bottle on Thursday at a construction site, where he works with his son and several other men.

"I think somebody try to play a joke on me, it was not a joke," Sanchez-Marchez said.