[PD-ot] USwater and the convention

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yes, you have to show ingredients in the US too, but are you banned  
from calling in "Mineralwasser" if you add some salt to some tap  
water and put it in a fancy bottle? ;)  Often times "spring water"  
can be water that is pumped out of the ground, i.e. a well.

The US also has rules regulating terms like "natural", etc., but  
business people around the world are very good at creative  
interpretation of laws, rules and regulations if it means they can  
make more money.

.hc

On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:44 PM, marius schebella wrote:

> it is a difference if the average user cannot tell the difference  
> or if you have no control at all...
> in EU water must not be insanitary and the standards are high. for  
> a long time austrian mineral water had to show all included  
> minerals and a chemical analysis on the label, and that does not  
> have to be older than 1 or 2 years.
> http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/hydro/vorl_portal/gwb/mw_MTV-0905.pdf
> marius.
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> Brilliant, thanks for posting.  I think Europe's bottled water  
>> could  use some of the same treatment.  I wonder how many tap  
>> water  carbonation and mineralization (i.e. table salt ;) plants  
>> there are  with alpine names.
>> .hc
>> On Oct 2, 2007, at 9:32 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>> this video was posted at the LAC list.
>>> it somehow reminded me on a discussion we had at the pd~con07 about
>>> chlorinated tap water in the US and canada.
>>>
>>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=XfPAjUvvnIc
>>>
>>>
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