On 11/22/2011 12:48 AM, azotic wrote:
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink
manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
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.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...hydration.html



Best Tegards
Tom.


perhaps it is worth reading the reasoning, quoted in the very last
paragraphs of the article before jumping to conclusions. One might
imagine, that by withholding the actual reasoning until the end, the
intent was ridicule not any objective discussion. The reasoning is
correct, and the statement originally submitted could comply if if the
readers didn't believe that water was the ONLY substance that could lead
to rehydration. Of course this whole thing is a bit silly, but the
article certainly is neither fair nor balanced.

"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.

He said: “The EU is saying that this does not reduce the risk of
dehydration and that is correct.

“This claim is trying to imply that there is something special about
bottled water which is not a reasonable claim.”"