Thread: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration

Nanny Zone Bans Claim that H2O Prevents Dehydration

Mike Shedlock
Nov 20, 2011

In a 3-year study, EU concluded there is no evidence that drinking water can cure dehydration and has banned bottles from stating that claim. Previously, EU officials banned the selling of overly bent bananas and curved cucumbers but backed off after international ridicule.

Yes, I am serious.

The Telegraph reports EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ation.html

EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.

Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.

Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said the ruling made the “bendy banana lawâ€

Reckon the wine lobbyists got to them?