Researchers alarmed at bacteria in Canadian bottled water

[Ed Barrow]

Source: Canwest News Service

Canadian researchers say they've discovered some bottled water in Canada contains more bacteria than what comes out of the tap — although they won't reveal which brands are the culprits.

Researchers from C-crest Laboratories in Montreal bought and tested several popular brands of bottled water, and found many of them had heterotrophic bacteria counts that were "surprisingly high."

More than 70 per cent of popular brands they tested did not meet the standards set out by the United States Pharmacopeia, a non-governmental agency that sets safety standards for medications and health-care products.

"Heterotrophic bacteria counts in some of the bottles were found to be in revolting figures of (100) times more than the permitted limit," said Sonish Azam, a researcher on the study, in a news release.



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[CBGLuthier]

1. HAHAHAHAHHA

I have never and will never drink bottled water. This is so funny it almost hurts.

[reggie the dog]

5. you are lucky your tap water does not reek of chlorine

just sayin, some of us have shitty tap water

[Dorian Gray]

6. Yeah....

it's shocking to me when I visit my parents in Florida how bad the tap water is. Here in NYC, it tastes great. (And it's pretty much all I drink, unless I'm out and need a water on the street. Then I'll buy a bottle.)

[applegrove]

2. My mom is a doctor and has always said that bottled water had lots more bacteria

in it than the treated water that came out of the taps. We never had bottled water in the house but she said not to keep bottled water for any length of time cause it gets worse and worse.

[snagglepuss]

3. A guy I worked kept buying bottld water despite being in dire financial

straits. Is suggested he cut back on his bottled water as it is a useless expnse but he refused to believe that tap as good or better than bottled water. I hope he sees this.

[Electric Monk]

4. Good thing it's only Canadian bottled water that has this problem, not American

ROTFL :rofl:

/what does Evian written backwards spell?