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December 20, 2004
The FDA and Bottled Water
The Food and Drug Administration has supplied a comprhensive guide for U.S. consumers, "Bottled Water: Better Than the Tap?". In it they explain how bottled water is regulated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). This is because bottled water is transported over state lines. Under this Act, the Agency does inspect bottling plants. They do not inspect or regulate the source of the water. This is the inherent flaw in bottled water. With wide distribution and multiple sources of the water supplied to the bottling plants, there is no standard, and moreover, no disclosure from suppliers of bottled water, just where it comes from. Even the FDA in this article agrees that tap water is just as safe. They also say that as for taste and odor, they recommend you filter at home, just as the bottled water manufacturers do at the bottling plants.
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Posted by Stephen Betheil at December 20, 2004 01:18 PM
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