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FUNNY~! Drinking Water DOES NOT Hydrate!
Renegade:
This is just WWWAAAAYYY too funny. Hysterical! Utter... Total... Chaotic... Rolling on the floor pissing yourself while you try to grasp a breath of air and nearly suffocate because you're laughing so hard funny. Really!
Leave it to EU bureaucrats to figure out that it is illegal to claim that drinking water hydrates you:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html
Full textEU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
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.
Last night, critics claimed the EU was at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.
“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.
“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”
NHS health guidelines state clearly that drinking water helps avoid dehydration, and that Britons should drink at least 1.2 litres per day.
The Department for Health disputed the wisdom of the new law. A spokesman said: “Of course water hydrates. While we support the EU in preventing false claims about products, we need to exercise common sense as far as possible."
German professors Dr Andreas Hahn and Dr Moritz Hagenmeyer, who advise food manufacturers on how to advertise their products, asked the European Commission if the claim could be made on labels.
They compiled what they assumed was an uncontroversial statement in order to test new laws which allow products to claim they can reduce the risk of disease, subject to EU approval.
They applied for the right to state that “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration” as well as preventing a decrease in performance.
However, last February, the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) refused to approve the statement.
A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.
Now the EFSA verdict has been turned into an EU directive which was issued on Wednesday.
Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said the ruling made the “bendy banana law” look “positively sane”.
He said: “I had to read this four or five times before I believed it. It is a perfect example of what Brussels does best. Spend three years, with 20 separate pieces of correspondence before summoning 21 professors to Parma where they decide with great solemnity that drinking water cannot be sold as a way to combat dehydration.
“Then they make this judgment law and make it clear that if anybody dares sell water claiming that it is effective against dehydration they could get into serious legal bother.
EU regulations, which aim to uphold food standards across member states, are frequently criticised.
Rules banning bent bananas and curved cucumbers were scrapped in 2008 after causing international ridicule.
Prof Hahn, from the Institute for Food Science and Human Nutrition at Hanover Leibniz University, said the European Commission had made another mistake with its latest ruling.
“What is our reaction to the outcome? Let us put it this way: We are neither surprised nor delighted.
“The European Commission is wrong; it should have authorised the claim. That should be more than clear to anyone who has consumed water in the past, and who has not? We fear there is something wrong in the state of Europe.”
Prof Brian Ratcliffe, spokesman for the Nutrition Society, said dehydration was usually caused by a clinical condition and that one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking water.
He said: “The EU is saying that this does not reduce the risk of dehydration and that is correct.
“This claim is trying to imply that there is something special about bottled water which is not a reasonable claim.”
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.
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A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.
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“The European Commission is wrong; it should have authorised the claim. That should be more than clear to anyone who has consumed water in the past, and who has not? We fear there is something wrong in the state of Europe.”
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And, it only took them 3 years to figure it out? ;D
Bwahahahahah~!
And people wonder WHY there is a crisis in Europe? Hahahahah~! ;D :P
And they're JUST figuring out that there is something WRONG in Europe? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA~! ;D :P
You CANNOT make this stuff up! You just can't!
NOTE: I just had to share this. The devil in me is giggling thinking about how many people will pee themselves laughing, while the angel really wishes to entertain. :P
Renegade:
Here it is from the horse's mouth:
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/1982.pdf
The claimed effect is “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the
risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance”. The target
population is assumed to be the general population. Dehydration is a condition of body water
depletion. The proposed risk factors are measures of water depletion and thus are measures of
the disease. The proposed claim does not comply with the requirements for a disease risk
reduction claim pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006.
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It gets even better!
They DEFINE what water is!
According to the applicant, “water (chemical formula H2O, MW=18.015), a transparent, odourless and
tasteless liquid (melting point: 0°C=273,15 K; boiling point: 100°C=373,15 K). In small quantities
colourless, the colour of water in thick layers is of a slight blue hue. Water is generally considered an
essential nutrient.”
(Original version submitted in German: “Wasser (Wasserstoffoxid, H2O, MR 18,015), eine klare,
geruch- und geschmacklose, generell farblose, in dicker Schicht bläulich schimmernde Flüssigkeit
(Schmelzpunkt 0°C=273,15 K, Siedepunkt 100°C=373,15 K), die ernährungswissenschaftlich
allgemein als essentieller Nährstoff gilt.“
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In English and German!
Oh, thank you for the enlightenment! I feel so smart now! ;D
But just when you thought it couldn't, it DOES get even better~! :D
EFSA DISCLAIMER
The present opinion does not constitute, and cannot be construed as, an authorisation to the marketing
of water, a positive assessment of its safety, nor a decision on whether water is, or is not, classified as
a foodstuff
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A disclaimer to note that they cannot decide whether water is food or not?
You CANNOT make this stuff up~! ;D
40hz:
It took the Soviet Union something like 69 years to collapse under the weight of it's over zealous, ridiculously self-righteous, and magical-thinking bureaucracy.
Apparently, the EU is intent on accomplishing the same collapse in less than a third the time.
What further proof for the superiority of Western thinking do we need than that?
Suggestion: let's transfer California's state government to Brussels; combine it with the EU; put a big fence around the city (with a sign that says: DANGER! 100,000 Dolts!) - and make that the European Union!
Then the rest of the world's population can get on with their lives, safe in the sure knowledge that all the regulatory 'nut cases' are humanely confined and accounted for.
8)
Eóin:
Medical claims require scientific backing? My god what is the world coming to? The ignorance expressed in this thread is hilarious, yet expected.
Renegade:
Medical claims require scientific backing? My god what is the world coming to? The ignorance expressed in this thread is hilarious, yet expected.
-Eóin (November 20, 2011, 12:30 PM)
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Seriously?
hy·drate
Verb: Cause to absorb water
It is true apriori.
i.e. It is trivially true.
maybe not recommended readingIt shows what sort of mental masturbation goes on in EU bureaucracy.
In other reports, there is no medical evidence that a bullet in the head does not cause death.
The BMJ has an article on the medical efficacy of parachutes and how they are unproven. Again, a complete lack of evidence for a health issue...
Seriously?
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