EU Ban's bottled water from claiming it prevents dehydration

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If you read the article, you'll see that this was used as a test case, nobody really cares if it goes on the bottle of water.

As Conradus corectly pointed out, the EU is evil and that is what we need to focus on.

Tongue somewhat in cheek, but consider what this regulation actually does in practice, which is somewhat different from what it does on paper. The same is true for the cucumber question.

On paper, it's supposed to verify the claims that food producers want to put on their products to make sure that they're not false or misleading. This is probably a silly example, but it doesn't invalidate the practice. Difficult to explain or to present to the common man? So is anti-trust regulation. Should we get rid of that, too?



The cucumber story is even more misleading. EU regulations about the maximum curve of cucumbers and whatnot were supposed to replace previously existing national regulations. Many of these (EU) regulations have been revoked 3 years ago, probably in part because they were used to make the EU look ridiculous, with no consequenses: supermarkets continue to apply the standards, or even higher ones, and refuse to put crooked cucumbers or deformed paprikas on the shelves.