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Blunder on bottled water colors EU's offshore initiative

12/12/2011
By Bob Tippee
The European Union has forfeited credibility needed elsewhere with forays last month into drilling and diction. While the Eurozone quaked under fiscal crisis, the EU bumbled into inappropriate realms. Calling the move a response to the Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the EU proposed common regulation for oil and gas drilling off all European coasts. It disclosed this initiative shortly after its European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) decided sellers of bottled water can't claim their product fights dehydration. Water bottlers can spend 2 years in jail if they claim "regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration" a...
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