Thursday, September 20, 2007

WATER:Consumers Beware


PAANI PAANI RE...

“The ISI has very high standards. In fact, ‘mineral water’ means that it should have undergone no processing at all. Presently, what is sold in the market as ‘mineral water’ is actually ‘packaged’ water. Real mineral water must have no additions, must have not undergone any ozonisation and should not have had any processing in the first place.”

"Packaged drinking water", the official notification defines as water derived from any source of potable water, which is subjected to treatment such as filtration, activated carbon filtration, demineralisation and reverse osmosis. The standard for packaged drinking water, which is being introduced for the first time, is more flexible in terms of source and processing.

The popular brands are only Packaged Drinking water and not Mineral Water,only four or five brands in India can claim to be Mineral Water. Customer should learn to make a difference between these two.