THE EU was ridiculed last night after it took three years to issue a new rule that water cannot be sold as healthy.
In a scarcely believable ruling, a panel of experts threw out a claim that regular water consumption is the best way to rehydrate the body.
The bizarre diktat from Brussels has far-reaching implications for member states, including Britain, as no water sold in the EU can now claim to protect against dehydration. What's bizarre about a diktat from Brussels? They live for this stuff...
Any producer breaching the order, signed by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, faces being jailed for up to two years. It took the 21 scientists on the panel three years of analysis into the link between water and dehydration to come to their extraordinary conclusion.
Last night the decision of the European Food Safety Authority's panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies was labelled "beyond parody". Ukip's deputy leader Paul Nuttall, who sits on the European Parliament's Public Health Committee, said: "I had to read this four or five times before I believed it.
"It is a perfect example of what the EU does best and makes the bendy banana law look positively sane."
Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: "The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are, highly paid, highly pensioned officials trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.
The EU has a long history of passing bizarre regulations, the most infamous being 1995 rules setting out dimensions for fruit and vegetables which led to excessively curved bananas and ugly carrots being banned. And last year attempts to regulate the use of root vegetables in Cornish pasties sparked chaos.
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Okay I take back what I said about Hariri and his Migraines.
Does the Rantburg hall of fame have a category for completely stupid things said with a straight face by an EU bureaucrat?
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
11/18/2011 10:21 Comments ||
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We'd have to build a new wing. Hit the tip jar...
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/18/2011 11:05 Comments ||
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As a registered Pisces, I want to put on record that I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I tell you at this world class decision of idiocy.
The first order of business is to establish a blue ribbon commission and investigate the so-called panel of experts. We need background information on every one of the individuals on the panel.
In order to establish the commission, we need to decide how to select the members of the commission. That is where things get sticky. You see, it is getting harder to find people with common sense to serve on commissions like this.......
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
11/18/2011 13:20 Comments ||
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use Di-Hydrogen Monoxide, while it has known risks, it's safer than water
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/18/2011 13:56 Comments ||
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AFAICT, none has published a meta-analysis of several double-blind randomized controlled trials which even attempt to confirm whether the ingestion of water in any form or in any amount is necessary to human life.
Therefore water is an unproven (and probably unnecessary) treatment for anything.
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Frank---Be sure to read the MSDS before you use it. It can kill you.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
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I just want to point out that beer contains electrolytes and water-soluble vitamins, in case any of you guys are dehydrated and don't want to look like a girlie-man by drinking Pedialyte.
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I don't want to live on this planet any more. Sarc/off. Yes, we have truly gone through the looking glass as per my comment on Beavis's post on the faster than light particles.
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Steve No way, Jose!. Pedialyte results in such a foul body odder!. I pick door number two for the beer please. I prefer the six pack ripped abs. They may look like one ab but I'll know there in there somewhere.
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