Some people think it's silly to buy bottled water for drinking, and asks: "Why pay for bottled water when you can get from your kitchen faucet?" Others prefer to have an option in drinking water. They want to know what is happening in their bodies, they say. To this end, drinking water from the tap-cons, "Have you ever run tests on tap water and bottled water?
No matter how you think you should choose your drinking water carefully. You can even test - or get the literature shows test results was performed on drinking water available to you.
Take drinking water in bottles. For many people, the fact that water is bottled means it is pure. But is it? Can bottled water also contains a large colony of "criminals of the waters", as tap water?
Terminology bottle of drinking water
The following definitions are frequently used on labels of bottles of water to describe the characteristics of water sources and treatment methods. It may surprise you. These definitions are taken from the booklet, "Fundamentals of bottled water," published by the Environmental Protection Agency of USA.
* Artesian water, ground water, spring water and well water - water from an underground aquifer which may or may not be processed. Water from artesian wells and water is captured by a well. Spring water is collected as it floats on the surface or via a borehole. Groundwater can be either.
* Distilled water - water vapor is condensed back boiling and bottles. Water distillation kills bacteria and removes natural minerals from the water, giving it a flat taste.
* Drinking water - water intended for human consumption and sealed in bottles or other containers with no ingredients, except that it may contain a disinfectant safe and healthy. Fluoride can be added within the quality standards of bottled water.
* Mineral water - ground water that naturally contains more than 250 parts per million total dissolved solids.
Have you noticed ...?
Drinking water in the bottle * is not necessarily clean, just tap water is not potable.
* Bottled drinking water can come from an aquifer that has been treated with chemicals or not treated at all. Tap water is usually treated.
* Bottled water may contain any number of impurities such as human or animal waste - both tap water is not allowed to contain.
* Bottled drinking water may contain fluoride and disinfectants - such as tap water does!
Drinking water in the bottle * may contain minerals, even drive!
Bottled drinking water is often much more polluted than we could hope for!
Bottled drinking standards
USFDA does not set standards for bottled drinking water. You might want to read if you are serious about drinking water for your family.
Bottled drinking water sold in interstate commerce UD, products bottled abroad, must meet the following minimum federal:
Drinking water in the bottle * must meet FDA standards for physical, chemical, microbiological and radiological. When the EPA sets a new standard for a contaminant in tap water, the FDA has set a new standard for the same contaminant in drinking water in bottles or find that the new EPA standard does not apply to drinking water in bottles.
TRANSLATION: Bottled drinking water is not necessarily better than tap water. In fact, it is clear that less stringent standards.
Bottling * must include the name of the product and the type of water, the name and address of manufacturer or packer, or distributor and the net content on their labels.
Translation: the labeling of bottled drinking water does not need to tell you what needs to be added to the water.
* New sources of bottled drinking water must be approved by a court or local. Bottlers must also test their source and finished bottled drinking water at least once a week for microbiological contaminants and at least once a year for physical, chemical and radiological.
TRANSLATION: When the source has been approved by the government, with the EPA and FDA standards, it is for the bottler to maintain cleanliness.
* If bottled water is found to be false or harmful to health, which is subject to enforcement actions by the FDA, the seizure of domestic products and the refusal of entry of imports.
TRANSLATION: Bottled drinking water is clean to ensure anyone. Only if the real dangers are coercive action may occur.
* Bottlers must operate their plants in compliance with good manufacturing practice for the FDA to ensure that their bottled water products are safe and produced under conditions of safety and health.
TRANSLATION: Bottled water should result in safety and health, but the actual content is not strictly controlled.
Bottled drinking water is good to have a hand in an emergency, but do not think drinking bottled water as drinking water. Purity can vary from one brand to another and from batch to batch.
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