Coca-Cola's 'Dasani' bottled tap water in UK contains carcinogen "bromate"

[scottxyz]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1174127,00.html

Things get worse with Coke
Bottled tap water withdrawn after cancer scare

First, Coca-Cola's new brand of "pure" bottled water, Dasani, was revealed earlier this month to be tap water taken from the mains. Then it emerged that what the firm described as its "highly sophisticated purification process", based on Nasa spacecraft technology, was in fact reverse osmosis used in many modest domestic water purification units.

Yesterday, just when executives in charge of a £7m marketing push for the product must have felt it could get no worse, it did precisely that.

The entire UK supply of Dasani was pulled off the shelves because it has been contaminated with bromate, a cancer-causing chemical.

So now the full scale of Coke's PR disaster is clear.

[FlemingsGhost]

1. Corporate greed is good for you. Mmmmmmmmm... bromate!

Three words: Class... Action... Suit.

[SoCalDem]

2. Hey.. I heard that there was NO health danger..

:eyes:..

They just pulled all of those bottles off the shelves, because they were thirsty :P

from www.b3ta.com ...their challenge was ..ways to make money..fast

[T_i_B]

3. I'm just glad...

...that I don't live in Sidcup then, as Sidcup is where the tap water used in Dasani comes from.

It's just tap water, that's all it is.

[eleonora]

4. but...if it's tap water...

then drinking tap water could be carcinogenic? (I sometimes do)
YIKES

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Tap water treated with Chlorine IS carcinogenic

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To the point that SKIN cancers, and lungs are affected by SHOWERS of all things - you know that nice steamy "air" you are breathing in the shower ?

I think they said that showering was up to 50x more dangerous than DRINKING the water-

Crazy you think?

just google cancer and chlorine and see how many hits you get.

I researched this about 3 years ago, and now I boil ALL water I drink, even if the City says it's fine - governments have lied before, no?

And my showers are much shorter now . .

got one of them shower heads with the shut-off - quick "wet-down" - lather - scrub -rinse cycle - you get it . .

[eleonora]

8. You've got to be kidding me!!

I can't believe I'm so ignorant!

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. Click on that Google image, it takes you to a list I put there

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out of thousands of hits,

the first page has more than enough to inform.

[eleonora]

11. thanks, I'm reading now

Scary

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. No - Coca Cola added the bromate themselves

that's what's makes the 'purified water' claim so ironic.

So now the full scale of Coke's PR disaster is clear. It goes something like this: take Thames Water from the tap in your factory in Sidcup, Kent; put it through a purification process, call it "pure" and give it a mark-up from 0.03p to 95p per half litre; in the process, add a batch of calcium chloride, containing bromide, for "taste profile"; then pump ozone through it, oxidising the bromide - which is not a problem - into bromate - which is. Finally, dispatch to the shops bottles of water containing up to twice the legal limit for bromate (10 micrograms per litre).

The Drinking Water Inspectorate confirmed yesterday it had checked the Thames water supplied to the factory and found it free of bromate. Because it is unsafe at high levels, standards for bromate in tap water are strictly monitored.

Bromide is a naturally occurring trace chemical which has a sedative effect. It is said to have been added by the British army to soldiers' tea during the second world war to dampen down their lust. But when it is oxidised into bromate it becomes "a pretty nasty carcinogen", according to David Drury, one of the principal inspectors for the DWI.

[truthisfreedom]

5. smells something like the carcinogenic setback for perrier a few years ago

when benzine was discovered in bottles of their water overseas.

[Nevernose]

10. Dasani outsells Coca-Cola n/t

[Moderator]

12. Locking

dupe. Continue here:

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