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July 10, 2007
Now its Counterfeit Bottled Water in China
Well we here have recently been concerned with tainted foods from China, and now the Beijing Times newspaper has reported that that more than half of the water coolers in Beijing use counterfeit branded water.
According to the report, the water is either tap water or purified water from small suppliers put into the water jugs and sealed with bogus quality standard marks.
Beijing's tap water is generally not safe to drink because of the city's aging pipes, and visitors to the capital see signs in luxury hotels that tell guests that the water has been treated and is safe to drink, though most Chinese consider it unsafe and do not drink it themselves.
The government agency that monitors food safety said the report was under investigation while down playing it. "Problems found with some individual cases cannot be interpreted to mean that the entire water industry has problems," Wu Jianping of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine told a news conference, as reported by the Associated Press.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at July 10, 2007 03:38 PM
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