I hope they win. Tired of all these false claims being made and nothing being done about. I was just discussing this with my water guy from Unicorn Springs. They get their water directly from the faucet on the end of the Unicorn’s horn, while the Unicorn drinks from The Fountain of Youth.
It’s all fun and games until it’s discovered that their water causes people to develop certain types of cancers. The consumers want to depend on these big companies to do the right thing, but they only want to take advantage of us. People that sell their products should be held accountable as well.
Bottled water. One of my favorite subjects, because it shows the herd mentality of consumers. My favorite irony is where the water comes from. The winner is a well known brand that is processed in California from … wait for it …. double filtered City of Dallas (Texas) tap water. Just start looking at the labels. And read some of the Consumer Reports results on what is in the water.
We have really good water here, my Dallas water is rated superior by the state of TX, or so says the sign when I cross the border into my town as we use Dallas water. Yet my husband will only buy Ozarka spring water, a sister brand to Poland spring. Dasani is bottled from Ft Worth municipal water.
While I agree companies take liberties with labeling and should be held accountable when they’re mislabeling products, we need to understand what words mean before we can say if what they’re doing is wrong.
Article: According to the amended complaint, Nestle Waters sells 1 billion gallons of Poland Spring a year in the United States, and “not one drop” of its water “emanates from a water source that qualifies as a genuine legal ‘natural spring.’”
“Spring Water” defined: Spring Water is water derived from an underground formation from which water flows naturally to the surface of the earth. Spring water must be collected only at the spring or through a borehole tapping the underground formation feeding the spring. Spring water collected with the use of an external force must be from the same underground stratum as the spring, must have all the physical properties before treatment, and must be of the same composition and quality as the water that flows naturally to the surface of the earth.
The question here is not “does the water come from a body of water that’s defined as a spring?” but “does the water come meet the definition of “spring water” as defined by the FDA?”
edit: The question here is not “does the water come from a natural spring?” but “does the water meet the FDA requirements to be classified as being “spring water”?”
I don’t care if it’s from groundwater or a “natural spring.” What I want to know is, DOES IT REALLY COME FROM A SPRING IN POLAND???
I hope they win. Tired of all these false claims being made and nothing being done about. I was just discussing this with my water guy from Unicorn Springs. They get their water directly from the faucet on the end of the Unicorn’s horn, while the Unicorn drinks from The Fountain of Youth.
How ironic that Evian spelled backwards is Naive.
It’s all fun and games until it’s discovered that their water causes people to develop certain types of cancers. The consumers want to depend on these big companies to do the right thing, but they only want to take advantage of us. People that sell their products should be held accountable as well.
Bottled water. One of my favorite subjects, because it shows the herd mentality of consumers. My favorite irony is where the water comes from. The winner is a well known brand that is processed in California from … wait for it …. double filtered City of Dallas (Texas) tap water. Just start looking at the labels. And read some of the Consumer Reports results on what is in the water.
We have really good water here, my Dallas water is rated superior by the state of TX, or so says the sign when I cross the border into my town as we use Dallas water. Yet my husband will only buy Ozarka spring water, a sister brand to Poland spring. Dasani is bottled from Ft Worth municipal water.
While I agree companies take liberties with labeling and should be held accountable when they’re mislabeling products, we need to understand what words mean before we can say if what they’re doing is wrong.
Article: According to the amended complaint, Nestle Waters sells 1 billion gallons of Poland Spring a year in the United States, and “not one drop” of its water “emanates from a water source that qualifies as a genuine legal ‘natural spring.’”
“Spring Water” defined: Spring Water is water derived from an underground formation from which water flows naturally to the surface of the earth. Spring water must be collected only at the spring or through a borehole tapping the underground formation feeding the spring. Spring water collected with the use of an external force must be from the same underground stratum as the spring, must have all the physical properties before treatment, and must be of the same composition and quality as the water that flows naturally to the surface of the earth.
source: http s://www.bottledwater.org/types/bottled-water
The question here is not “does the water come from a body of water that’s defined as a spring?” but “does the water come meet the definition of “spring water” as defined by the FDA?”
edit: The question here is not “does the water come from a natural spring?” but “does the water meet the FDA requirements to be classified as being “spring water”?”
Why don’t they bottle it during the Summer, Fall, or Winter?
Cue Mr. Pitts speech – Seinfeld…..