EU SAYS WATER IS NOT HEALTHY

[WestVirginiaRebel]

UK Express:

THE EU was ridiculed last night after it took three years to issue a new rule that water cannot be sold as healthy.

In a scarcely believable ­ruling, a panel of experts threw out a claim that regular water consumption is the best way to rehydrate the body. The bizarre diktat from Brussels has far-reaching implications for member states, including Britain, as no water sold in the EU can now claim to protect against dehydration.

Any producer breaching the order, signed by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, faces being jailed for up to two years. It took the 21 scientists on the panel three years of analysis into the link between water and dehydration to come to their extraordinary conclusion.

Last night the decision of the European Food Safety Authority’s panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies was labelled “beyond parody”. Ukip’s deputy leader Paul Nuttall, who sits on the European Parliament’s Public Health Committee, said: “I had to read this four or five times before I believed it.

“It is a perfect example of what the EU does best and makes the bendy banana law look positively sane.”

Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are, highly paid, highly pensioned officials 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.”

A spokesman for the Department of Health said: “Of course water hydrates. While we support the EU in preventing false claims about commercial products, we need to exercise common sense as far as possible.”
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Kind of gives new meaning to "don't drink the water..."

[RandyM]

When I first started reading this, I thought it was the plot summary for a Men in Black 3 movie. Then I realized it was real.... and sounds just like something our EPA would do.

[nickydog]

And here I thought they had important issues to consider these days....

[Pepper]

It is probably exaggerated.

 

See

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/nov/18/1?newsfeed=true

 

Two professors made a claim that water prevented diseases, per this

 

Scientific Opinion on the substantiation of a health claim related to water and reduced risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/20061

 

"The scope of the application was proposed to fall under a health claim referring to disease risk reduction."

 

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/1982.pdf

[Valin]

And here I thought they had important issues to consider these days....

 

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

WC Fields