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Bottled Water Back in the News
This week Ontario NDP MPP Peter Tabuns (Toronto-Danforth) submitted a new Private Members Bill - (Bottled Water Spending Act, 2009) - to restrict government spending on bottled water. If passed, the Bill would make Ontario the first province in Canada to restrict bottled water.
If passed, the act would require every branch and body of government to ensure that where potable water is readily available, public funds are not used to purchase bottled water.

BPA Levels Safe: Health Canada?
Health Canada testing has detected bisphenol A (BPA) in some 18.5-litre polycarbonate bottles of drinking water, but it says the levels are low and pose no health or safety concerns.
Detailed reports on levels of the chemical in various products purchased last year in Ottawa were posted on the Health Canada website Thursday, says CBC News.
For the bottled water survey, researchers looked at samples of 54 different products sold under 21 brands by 16 companies. They were purchased in Ottawa stores in April 2008.
The containers were made of metal, glass, high-density polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate and polycarbonate. Levels of BPA from the non-polycarbonate water products were below the "method detection limit" of 0.5 parts per billion. But bisphenol A was detected in 13 of 17 samples from four of the five polycarbonate bottled water products. Concentrations ranged from 0.5 to a high of 8.82 parts per billion, with an average of 1.5 parts per billion.
"Since migration of BPA from PC containers into water at room temperature is very slow, it is likely that the products with higher BPA were exposed to heat (e.g., under the sun) during storage and/or transportation," the report said.
At a level of 1.5 parts per billion, an adult weighing 60 kilograms would have to consume about 1,000 litres of bottled water in one day to approach Health Canada’s provisional tolerable daily intake.

Murky Waters Exposes Bottled Water Recalls
A new report released today by the Polaris Institute discusses the current state of federal bottled water regulations in Canada and calls it inadequate.
The report, entitled Murky Waters: The urgent need for health and environmental regulations of the bottled water industry, claims that since 2000, there have been 29 recalls of 49 bottled water products in Canada (obtained through Access to Information by the Polaris Institute).
The report also claims that bottled water plants are inspected on average once every three years, while tap water is regulated and inspected multiple times daily, and that the current mandatory labeling of bottled water products does not sufficiently address a number of health concerns related to content, storage and expiry dates.
www.insidethebottle.org

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