Posted by
Rajjpuut's Folly on Friday, July 10, 2009 4:28:48 PM
Consumers know less about expensive bottled water than about free tap water: a $16 billion industry.
"FDA . . . Foul, Disgusting Agency" doesn't say the half of it. No more corrupt government entity has ever turned upon the citizens of this country.
Unlike ordinary free tap water which is monitored by the EPA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) monitors bottled water. As usual that's very bad news.
Some popular brands of bottled water have had their bottles voluntarily recalled three times? Since recalls have been monitored that's happened over a hundred different times. Have you ever been notified? Ever heard a news story about that? Did you know that next to plastic shopping bags, bottled water containers are one of the very biggest environmental headaches of our time? Did you know that many popular brands are contaminated with phthalates, a chemical used to make plastic softer which disrupts the human endocrine system. Did you realize that many bottled waters are less safe than free tap water? That many of them basically are free tap water? That despite their claims of health advantages, none has ever been proved.
Looking at one of the biggest issues more closely, phthalates besides being a disaster for the endocrine system in general is a holocaust for male fetuses. Malformed reproductive organs, undescended testes and low sperm counts later in life are all suspected results of ptthalates contamination at high levels. The bottles themselves do NOT contain the chemical phthalates, surprisingly enough. The contaminants are suspected of entry into the water during processing at bottling plants or perhaps were present in the original water source. Phthalates has even found contaminating some tap waters.
Since the FDA refuses to give oversight to water bottled and sold within a state, including those huge water-cooler jugs you see in every office . . . so 2/3 of all bottled water has NO FDA oversight. The FDA has less than one full-time person per state monitoring this sixteen billion dollar industry. Many bottling plants are not inspected even yearly. The manufacturers are not required to let customers know about recalls, and they don't. Mold, crickets, coliform bacteria, microbes and, of course, super high levels so phthalates are all reasons for some of the hundred plus recalls since 1992. Enjoy your drink!
So the FDA which has the resources to make raids on the office's of doctors suspected of prescribing GASP! vitamins, minerals and other nutrients; and also on health food stores . . . has no interest in looking at our bottled water. But, of course, it all makes sense in a perverted sort of FDA way . . . .
Live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
Regular readers of Rajjpuut’s little rants will recognize a strong personal antipathy toward the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). That once great organization created in 1906, the very year that Upton Sinclair’s monumental novel/expose` “The Jungle” hit the bookstore shelves, has degenerated into the most corrupt federal organization in America. Rajjpuut, health educator he, believes that only a complete top-to-bottom remake of the FDA will allow any health care plan, now or in the future, any hope of success.