Tag: water
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Global Water Survey Finds Water Supply Challenges Affecting Food Industry
According to a new report from the U.K.-based Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a majority of the world’s largest companies, including those in the food and beverage sectors, have developed specific water policies, strategies and plans, with 39 percent reporting experience with disruption to operations from drought or flooding, declining water quality or increases in water…
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Nitrosamines Targeted Under Potential EPA Regulatory Paradigm
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly considering addressing toxins in drinking water by regulating them in groups, rather than continuing to address them contaminant-by-contaminant, and has identified nitrosamines as one of the first groups that could be subject to the new paradigm. Other groups under consideration are pesticides, volatile organic compounds and chlorinated disinfection…
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Stay on Water Bottle Deposits Lifted in New York
A federal court in New York has decided to allow most parts of a new state bottle-deposit law to take effect, lifting a injunction that would have delayed implementation until April 2010. Int’l Bottled Water Ass’n v. Paterson, No. 09-4672 (S.D.N.Y., decided August 13, 2009). Additional details about the litigation challenging the law’s constitutionality appear…
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Trade Group Files False Advertising Suit over Plastic Water Bottle Claims
A trade group representing bottled water producers, distributors and suppliers has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Eco Canteen Inc., a stainless steel bottle manufacturer, “for engaging in a deliberate scare campaign to mislead and deceive the public” about the purported health and environmental risks associated with plastic bottle use. Int’l Bottled Water Ass’n…
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GAO, Nonprofit Researchers Urge Stricter Labeling for Bottled Water
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, released reports at a July 8, 2009, congressional subcommittee hearing that called for bottled water to be labeled with the same level of information as municipal water products. The GAO report stated that federal safety protections are often…
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New FDA Bottled Water Rules Aim to Combat E. Coli
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule that requires bottled water manufacturers to face stricter standards to prevent E. coli contamination . All manufacturers are currently required to test source water for germs each week, but starting December 1, 2009, if tests prove positive for E. coli, companies must explain in…
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Water Bottle Deposit Law Challenged in New York
According to news sources, a bottled water industry trade association and several companies that produce bottled water have sued New York in federal court seeking to overturn an amendment to the state’s Returnable Container Act imposing a 5-cent deposit on water bottles. Int’l Bottled Water Ass’n v. Paterson, No. 09-4672 (S.D.N.Y., filed May 19, 2009).…
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Tenth Circuit Refuses to Enjoin Use of Poultry Waste as Fertilizer
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s decision not to enjoin Tyson Foods, Inc. from using poultry litter as fertilizer. Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods, Inc., No. 08-5154 (10th Cir., decided May 13, 2009). Oklahoma’s attorney general sought a preliminary injunction to halt the practice, arguing that poultry litter contains E. coli,…