The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) today presented affidavit to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Energy and Commerce Committee of U.S. House of Representatives, on the adjustment of bottled water. Addressing these issues, IBWA President and CEO Joe Doss stated: “Bottled baptize is assiduously and stringently adapted in the United States at both the federal and accompaniment levels, which helps ensure its assurance and quality. At the federal level, bottled baptize is adapted as a packaged aliment artefact by the FDA beneath the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. It have to accommodated FDA’s accepted aliment regulations as able-bodied as standards of identity, standards of quality, acceptable accomplishment practices and labeling requirements accurately promulgated for bottled water.” IBWA supports a consumer’s appropriate to clear, accurate and absolute advice about the bottled baptize articles they purchase, said Joe Doss. Yet, even at these levels, bottled baptize accounts for beneath than 0.02% percent of all groundwater withdrawals annually The U.S. bottled baptize bazaar is absolutely a chump apprenticed market, in which consumers are authoritative convalescent choices in the acknowledgment category
Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) July 9, 2009 -- The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) today presented affidavit to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Energy and Commerce Committee of U.S. House of Representatives, on the adjustment of bottled water.
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Addressing these issues, IBWA President and CEO Joe Doss stated: “Bottled baptize is assiduously and stringently adapted in the United States at both the federal and accompaniment levels, which helps ensure its assurance and quality. At the federal level, bottled baptize is adapted as a packaged aliment artefact by the FDA beneath the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. It have to accommodated FDA’s accepted aliment regulations as able-bodied as standards of identity, standards of quality, acceptable accomplishment practices and labeling requirements accurately promulgated for bottled water.”
Mr. Doss noted: “As with added packaged foods and beverages, bottled baptize have to accommodated FDA’s accepted aliment regulations, which cover all-encompassing labeling requirements for ingredients; the name and abode of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor; the product’s net weight; and, if required, diet labeling. In addition, FDA has promulgated abstracted standards of character (including labeling requirements that analyze the blazon of bottled water), standards of quality, and acceptable accomplishment practices accurately for bottled water.”
To ensure all-embracing bottled baptize safety, in 1995 the FDA accustomed accepted of character regulations for bottled water, chargeless compatible definitions for the afterward bottled baptize classifications: bottled, drinking, artesian, groundwater, distilled, deionized, about-face osmosis, mineral, purified, sparkling, spring, antiseptic and able-bodied water.
IBWA’s affidavit credibility out: “A bottled baptize artefact have to accommodated the adapted Standard of Identity and blade the appropriate name on its characterization or it may be accounted misbranded beneath the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. If a bottled baptize product’s antecedent is a borough baptize arrangement and it does not accommodated the FDA Standard of Identity for antiseptic or antiseptic water, it have to announce the accessible baptize arrangement antecedent on the label.”
Consumers Right to Know
“IBWA supports a consumer’s appropriate to clear, accurate and absolute advice about the bottled baptize articles they purchase, said Joe Doss. “All packaged foods and beverages, including bottled water, are accountable to all-encompassing FDA labeling requirements that accommodate consumers with a abundant accord of artefact above information. In addition, around all bottled baptize articles cover a buzz amount on the characterization that consumers can use to acquaintance the company. In fact, IBWA has petitioned FDA to crave all bottled baptize labels to cover a buzz number. IBWA believes that the a lot of achievable way for consumers to access advice not already on the characterization is through a appeal to the bottler. In addition, consumers can go to the IBWA website to access acquaintance advice or baptize above advice for all IBWA affiliate brands.”
To advice ensure that consumers accept acceptance to advantageous and allusive bottled baptize artefact information, the IBWA Code of Practice requires all associates to accede with the following:
- All proprietary casting articles have to cover a blast amount on their labels so consumers can calmly acquaintance the aggregation and appeal artefact information. IBWA maintains an online affiliate database, which aswell contains a specific hotlink to a affiliate company’s baptize above advice and/or acquaintance advice that may be acclimated to defended a company’s baptize above report.
A appointment to IBWA’s website: www.bottledwater.org will accommodate consumers with Water Quality Information for every IBWA member, with a web hotlink to the aggregation or with acquaint abstracts provided by the company.
Bottled Water’s Role in Disaster Response
Bottled baptize plays a basic role in adversity response. Clean, safe baptize is a analytical charge for citizens and aboriginal responders anon afterward a accustomed adversity or added adverse event. Unfortunately, the availability of baptize from accessible baptize systems is generally compromised in the after-effects of such an event. During these times, bottled baptize is the best advantage to bear apple-pie safe bubbler baptize bound into afflicted areas.
The bottled baptize industry has consistently been at the beginning of abatement efforts during accustomed disasters and added adverse events. Throughout the years, bottled baptize companies accept anon responded to the charge for apple-pie baptize afterwards accustomed disasters, such as Hurricanes Andrew, Charlie, and Katrina, or the agitator attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. More recently, our affiliate companies provided bottled baptize to those in charge in the after-effects of the bounce calamity in the Midwest and to the victims of Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna. The bottled baptize industry looks to IBWA to advice alike activities with accompaniment and federal government agencies and organizations, such as the American Red Cross and Salvation Army. Working together, we actuate the quickest and a lot of able way to bear safe bottled baptize into afflicted areas to augment added abatement efforts. Realistically, it takes vibrant, bartering bottled baptize industry to aftermath the much-needed bottled baptize that is fabricated accessible for adversity assistance.
Overview of the Bottled Water Industry
According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, in 2007, the absolute aggregate of bottled baptize captivated in the United States surpassed 8.8 billion gallons, a 6.9% advanced over the 2006 aggregate level. That translates into an boilerplate of 29.3 gallons per person, which agency U.S. association now alcohol added bottled baptize annually than any added acknowledgment except carbonated bendable drinks. Sales revenues for the United States bottled baptize bazaar in 2008 were about $11.2 billion (in broad dollars), a 3.2% abatement over the antecedent year.
“Yet, even at these levels, bottled baptize accounts for beneath than 0.02% percent of all groundwater withdrawals annually,” Mr. Doss stated.
“The U.S. bottled baptize bazaar is absolutely a chump apprenticed market, in which consumers are authoritative convalescent choices in the acknowledgment category,” Mr. Doss said. “The backbone of chump self-generated appeal is illustrated by the almost bashful aggregate spent on advertising. The 2006 bottled baptize bartering costs totaled alone $52 million. For allegory purposes, $637 actor was spent on bartering for carbonated bendable drinks (nearly 15 times that for bottled water) and bartering costs for beer totaled $1 billion (approximately 20 times that for bottled water.)”
IBWA associates statistics announce that bottled baptize companies in the United States are primarily ancestors endemic and operated baby businesses. Over 60% of the IBWA associates has sales beneath than $1 actor and 90% accept sales beneath than $10 million. Almost all bottled baptize brands are awash on a bounded or bounded base with the barring of imports and antiseptic waters.
A archetype of Mr. Doss’ accounting affidavit is aswell accessible on the IBWA website http://tinyurl.com/nves9o
The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is the accurate antecedent of advice about all types of bottled waters. Founded in 1958, IBWA's associates includes U.S. and all-embracing bottlers, distributors and suppliers. IBWA is committed to alive with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates bottled baptize as a packaged aliment product, and accompaniment governments to set acrimonious standards for safe, top above bottled baptize products. In accession to FDA and accompaniment regulations, the Association requires affiliate bottlers to attach to the IBWA Bottled Water Code of Practice, which mandates added standards and practices that in some cases are added acrimonious than federal and accompaniment regulations.
For Information and Interviews
Contact Tom Lauria at 703-647-4609 or tlauria (at) bottledwater.org
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