EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration

[atlas]

In a 3-year study, EU concluded there is no evidence that drinking water can cure dehydration and has banned bottles from stating that claim.

EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.

Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.

Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said the ruling made the “bendy banana law” look “positively sane”.

He said: “I had to read this four or five times before I believed it. It is a perfect example of what Brussels does best. Spend three years, with 20 separate pieces of correspondence before summoning 21 professors to Parma where they decide with great solemnity that drinking water cannot be sold as a way to combat dehydration.

Rules banning bent bananas and curved cucumbers were scrapped in 2008 after causing international ridicule.

Prof Brian Ratcliffe, spokesman for the Nutrition Society, said dehydration was usually caused by a clinical condition and that one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking water.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html

 

[Pred]

stop the world, I want to get off

 

[BREWSTERS]

Billy Connelly was right; "anyone who wants to be a politician, should be barred from ever becoming one"!

 

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In a 3-year study, EU concluded there is no evidence that drinking water can cure dehydration and has banned bottles from stating that claim.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html

The point is that they had to come up with 100% irrefutable evidence to force the bottled water manufacturers to remove the claim from their advertising.

If they'd just made a ruling with no research the manufacturers would have started actions against Brussels which no doubt would have cost a lot more than the research cost (which we don't know).

Re "bendy bananas" - there was never such a ruling. It was misrepresentation again by the tabloids which took one line out of a new ruling that bananas should not be deformed! Getting fed up seeing this one repeated.

I personally think it's a great ruling, we mostly get enough water from the food we eat and the drinks we take during a day naturally.

Saying that, I do know of several countries where doctors will suggest to patients that they drink certain mineral waters due to the specific minerals in that water ...

 

[tifosi]

Next the EU will be forced to put on bottles of water 'Warning Hazardous To health'. Correctly, drinking too much water can kill you. Pulmonary oedema. Literally drinking yourself to death.

Another useless Sunday evening fact!