PepsiCo to put on label that Aquafina is just tap water
Posted on July 27th, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, beverage, Corporate Accountability International, food, healthcare, Michelle Naughton, Pennsylvania, Pepsi-Cola North America, PepsiCo Inc., politics, regulation, Teller, United States, watchdog groupPepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.
According to Corporate Accountability International, a U.S. watchdog group, the world’s No. 2 beverage company will include the words “Public Water Source” on Aquafina labels.
“If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it’s a reasonable thing to do,” said Michelle Naughton, a Pepsi-Cola North America spokeswoman.
This is quite funny. Some companies already do this. I suppose it’s a good thing to inform the customer of but if a person doesn’t realize that most of the bottle water is just taken from a local public filtering plant then I’m not concerned with what the label says. The whole bottled water thing is silly. You pay more per unit for water then gasoline yet you get effectively the exact same thing from the tap in 90% of the country. I really recommend Penn and Teller’s Bullshit episode to see how ridiculous it all is.
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