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    John on April 10, 2007 at 9:43 am

    From Yahoo News comes this Reuters story:

    Bottled water is not necessarily healthier or safer than tap water, Tampa, Florida-based sports nutritionist Cynthia Sass told the American College of Sports Medicine 11th annual Health & Fitness Summit in Dallas.

    Twenty-five percent of all bottled water is actually repackaged tap water, according to Sass.

    “Bottled water doesn’t deserve the nutritional halo that most people give it for being pure,” she says. “If you’re not an exclusive bottled water drinker, you may find it worthwhile to check into filtering your tap water to save money.”

    In a recent Gallop survey, most consumers said they drink bottled water because they perceive it to be purer than tap water. Taste and convenience are also factors.

    Because bottled water is considered a food, it is regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration. Tap water is regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Both types of water are subject to testing for contaminates.”

    But Sass points out that an estimated 60 to 70 percent of all bottled water in the U.S. is packaged and sold within the same state, which exempts it from FDA regulation. And 1 in 5 states do not regulate that bottled water.

    Moreover, tests on 1,000 bottles of 103 different brands of bottled water found man-made chemicals, bacteria and arsenic in 22 percent of the bottles.

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    2 Comments

    1. Coop

      This is good to know, especially living in Milwaukee as I do. Most folks around here still don’t trust the tap water after the crypto scare several years ago, which I still remember vividly. We get ours essentially filtered now from a machine at the grocery store, runs about 30 cents a gallon. But I’ll keep this in mind next time I stop for a bottle of water at the gas station.

      April 10, 2007 @ 10:23 am
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      April 17, 2007 @ 8:20 am

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