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Natural foods grocery chain Whole Foods introduced its new brand of bottled water at a 2015 investor event, where company executives heralded the products purity and healthfulness.
It naturally flows out of the ground, chief operating officer A.C. Gallo said about the companys spring in Council, Idaho, according to a published transcript on its website. We built, actually, a spring house over it so we can let the water go down to the bottling plant. Its amazingly pristine water.
Yet from late 2016 to early 2017, Starkey Waterthe name of Whole Foods brandrecalled more than 2,000 cases of water after tests by regulators showed an impermissible level of arsenic beyond the federally mandated threshold of 10 parts per billion. A year later, Whole Foods internal testing showed results that were just under the federal limit but still at levels that pose risks if regularly consumed, according to growing research and independent experts, including Consumer Reports scientists.
It makes no sense that consumers can purchase bottled water that is less safe than tap water, says James Dickerson, Ph.D., chief scientific officer at Consumer Reports. If anything, bottled watera product for which people pay a premium, often because they assume its safershould be regulated at least as strictly as tap water.
https://www.consumerreports.org/water-quality/arsenic-in-some-bottled-water-brands-at-unsafe-levels/
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Grokenstein
(5,725 posts)"Where in the Constitution does it say people are entitled to clean, safe water? You socialists want everything to be free and safe!!"
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)as well as Qwik&Painless bottled water with slogan "The only choice to quench a captured spy's thirst"
progree
(10,909 posts)I don't drink fruit juice, and I limit my rice intake (I eat brown rice, which is worse as far as arsenic), but am still getting more than safe levels, IMHO after reading what they say (it's a carcinogen at low levels like we're talking about, not medieval level poisonings).
PoindexterOglethorpe
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