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EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
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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.
Last night, critics claimed the EU was at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.
“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.
“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”
NHS health guidelines state clearly that drinking water helps avoid dehydration, and that Britons should drink at least 1.2 litres per day.
The Department for Health disputed the wisdom of the new law. A spokesman said: “Of course water hydrates. While we support the EU in preventing false claims about products, we need to exercise common sense as far as possible.”
German professors Dr Andreas Hahn and Dr Moritz Hagenmeyer, who advise food manufacturers on how to advertise their products, asked the European Commission if the claim could be made on labels.
They compiled what they assumed was an uncontroversial statement in order to test new laws which allow products to claim they can reduce the risk of disease, subject to EU approval.
They applied for the right to state that “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration” as well as preventing a decrease in performance.
However, last February, the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) refused to approve the statement.
A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.
Now the EFSA verdict has been turned into an EU directive which was issued on Wednesday.
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I understand the idea of having such a harsh ruling about banning the use of the word
“dehydration” but quite frankly I have a bigger problem with all the water that is being sold in plastic bottles. The plastic bottles are not contained and wind up in our oceans and
represent a huge damage to our ecosystem and our food chain (along with the multiplicity of
other things that are strewn into the environment). Big companies come along and plunder
our aquifers; also, often the content is lied about, etc. Sometimes it is necessary, perhaps,
to have bottled water, when traveling in another country and the body is unused to certain
bacteria could become severely ill.
But in the U.S. most of our water is fine and paranoia about “bad” water and the fact of
the convenience of carrying a bottle around so one has water all the time has gotten us
into a throwaway mentality.
There are many ways to filter water for those who do have concerns and then to carry a
stainless steel container or even a small sturdy glass bottle.
They will next prove that water is not wet. This is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard of. How about starving will not cause death next.If a body is dehydrated adding water won’t recerse dehydration? WTF!
This reminds me of an intensive research study which proved that ducks like water.
Only this is, you know, really stupid.
Could people not see the slow growth of total control over every area of our lives? This cancer has been growing when I was a child yet the adults responsible for protecting my future was asleep at the TV. What will our excuse be for not protecting our kids from such madness and loss of God given human rights?
All this kerfuffle about water vs dehydration proves, is that socialistic thinkers don’t know up from down. Let those “thinkers” who wrote the edict, be deported to the Sahara without water, and be forced to do exercise routines in the hot sun for a few days with nothing to drink, just to prove a point. When they can no longer spit, and their kidneys begin to shut down, remind them that water doesn’t hydrate, that’s all. Only then will they recind their order. Or drop dead.
This is the absolute height of absurdity!! Just shows that you can always find a “scientist” who will ‘prove’ your point of view by skewing the facts.
Too much Parma Ham for those Italian bozo scientists. Dudes, this insanity is global. Scientists and experts are only as good as their employer. Codex wants to control…end subject. All the worlds free thinking people, stand up to these globalist corporate bastards once and for all. They need us or they would just have us exterminated. Oh ya and the guy above who thinks this has anything to do with socialism is a dinosaur. This is not left or right, your own policy makers right here in the good ol’ USA are just as bad as Europe…fact worse.