70 percent of Bottled Water is completely unregulated
Most people will be annoyed because they have spent thousands per year buying water less pure than that which currently comes out of their taps free - Many others should be angered because this tainted liquid has been used to dilute baby formula by well-intending parents who've been paying more for it than they can afford.
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"The Environmental Working Group's bottled water testing turned up a surprise finding: bottled waters from Walmart (the Sam's Choice brand) and Giant Foods (Acadia brand) showed high levels of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) known as trihalomethanes, chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects. These chemicals are common pollutants in municipal tap water.
...FDA-sanctioned presence of known carcinogens in bottled water highlights the woeful insufficiency of federal regulations over bottled water production. As a result of the FDA's hands-off approach to bottled water standards, quality among brands and even among different bottles within a single brand varies tremendously. As uncovered by EWG, while some bottled waters appear to be purified or treated more than tap water, others contain excessive levels of chemical pollutants." ...
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This is a 60 second video which gives some uncommonly known info such as... "Bottle water rules allow for contaminants like Ecoli or Fecal Coliform.
Which in layman's terms means it could have POOP in it!!!"
There is no justification for there to be high levels of carcinogens and birth-defect causing chemicals in water that is marketed as purified.
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