International Bottled Water Association Stands Ready to Assist GAO in Bottled Water Study

Bottled baptize is a advantageous acknowledgment that is produced by an industry with an outstanding attitude of ecology stewardship, protection, and sustainability. IBWA and the bottled baptize industry acceptable the befalling to allotment important facts about bottled baptize with the GAO and our nation’s adopted admiral as they undertake this task.

Alexandria, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 31, 2008 -- The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) stands accessible to plan with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) as it considers a appeal by two associates of the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Environment and Hazardous Materials to abstraction specific issues apropos bottled baptize and tap water. The bottled baptize industry is assured that the facts will authenticate actually the bottled baptize industry’s outstanding almanac of ecology stewardship, conservation, and sustainability practices. IBWA aswell believes that the GAO address will appearance that the safety, quality, and labeling of bottled baptize are assiduously adapted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and accompaniment governments.

IBWA President and CEO Joe Doss stated, “IBWA and the bottled baptize industry acceptable the befalling to allotment important facts about bottled baptize with the GAO and our nation’s adopted admiral as they undertake this task.” To advice analyze a amount of issues aloft in the Committee columnist release, IBWA provides the afterward bottled baptize facts:

o   Bottled baptize is a safe, healthy, acceptable aliment artefact that is assiduously adapted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and accompaniment governments.
o   Bottled baptize is one of bags of packaged foods and beverages—not to acknowledgment added chump products--used by consumers every day. Any accomplishments to abate the ecology appulse of packaging have to focus on all chump appurtenances and not ambition any one industry.
o   The bottled baptize industry, like abounding others in the aliment and acknowledgment industry, has taken accomplishments to abate its ecology brand through the use of anytime lighter weight packaging and absolute abutment and captivation in recycling educational and advancement programs. Bottled baptize containers are absolutely recyclable and should be appropriately recycled through whatever arrangement a bounded city has in place.
o   FDA has bent that antecedent labeling for bottled baptize is not all-important or appropriate if a casting is in acquiescence with the FDA bottled baptize Standard of Identity, Standard of Quality, Good Manufacturing Practices, and added regulations.
o   The antecedent of a bottled baptize product, as able-bodied as added casting information, may be acquired by contacting the bottled baptize aggregation directly. According to FDA law, all aliment products, including bottled water, have to cover the name and area of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor. Moreover, abounding bottled baptize companies cover added acquaintance information—such as a blast amount or web website address--on the artefact label.
o   FDA and accompaniment governments admit groundwater and borough baptize systems as accepted and accurate sources for bottled baptize production. There are specific labeling and added standards to advice ensure consumers are acquainted of the blazon of bottled baptize they choose.
o   Moreover, it is important to agenda that bottled baptize companies that use borough antecedent baptize amusement and absolve the baptize afore it is bottled and delivered to consumers as a packaged aliment product. If a bottled baptize is sourced from a borough baptize arrangement and has not been added treated, FDA requires the characterization to accompaniment that it is from a borough or association baptize system.
o   The bottled baptize industry is a basal user of groundwater assets and accounts for alone 0.02% (2/100 of one percent) of all groundwater withdrawals in the United States according to a 2005 abstraction by the Drinking Water Research Foundation (DWRF). However, the bottled baptize industry aggressively supports absolute groundwater ability administration policies. IBWA affiliate bottlers admit the analytical accent of ecology attention and administration of all baptize resources.
o   At a time if obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and added maladies are on the rise, Americans have to be able to accept the benign allowances of bottled water, which is growing in acceptance because of its connected quality, aftertaste and convenience. Many humans accept canteen baptize over added beverages because it does not accommodate calories, caffeine, sugar, artificial flavors or colors, booze or added capacity consumers may ambition to abstain or moderate.
o   The bottled baptize industry has consistently been at the beginning of abatement efforts during accustomed disasters and added adverse contest by bartering millions of bottles of baptize in acknowledgment to these types of emergencies. 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 generally best advantage to bear apple-pie safe bubbler baptize bound into afflicted areas.

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. Media inquiries can be directed to IBWA Vice President, Communications Stephen R. Kay at 703-647-4609 or skay@bottledwater.org. IBWA: www.bottledwater.org.

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Bottled Water Containers Now the Single Most Recycled Item in Curbside Programs

Bottled Water Container Recycling Rates Improved by 16% Water bottles are now the a lot of recycled alembic in curbside programs by weight, and overwhelmingly by number. Recycling ante abide to acceleration while canteen weight tumbles downward But this improvement, while encouraging, reminds us that added needs to be done. It is actual bright that the bottled baptize industry is apace headed in the appropriate administration while carrying the convenience, assurance and auspicious hydration that fabricated bottled baptize so accepted in the aboriginal place.

Alexandria, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 19, 2009 -- The civic recycling amount for PET artificial bottled baptize containers (.5 liter or 16.9 ounce size) has bigger by 16.42%, according to new abstracts from two new studies: ''2008 Post Consumer PET Bottle Bale Composition Analysis'' and ''2007 Report on PET Water Bottle Recycling,'' both produced by the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR). According to abstracts from an beforehand 2006 array agreeable abstraction for all beverages, the amount of PET bottles counted per batter was about 12. In 2008, the absolute amount of PET bottles added to 13.78, a absorption of the affecting access in baptize canteen collection, as able-bodied as the connected lightweighting of added plastic containers. The 2007 NAPCOR abstraction on baptize canteen recycling has bent that the recycling amount for baptize bottles is 23.4%, apery a cogent 16.42% access over the 2006 recycling amount of 20.1%.

With abstracts aggregate during an all-encompassing array agreement abstraction in 15 locations in 14 states, the 2008 NAPCOR PET appraisal states: "Water bottles are now the a lot of recycled alembic in curbside programs by weight, and overwhelmingly by number." PET baptize bottles now anniversary for 50% of all the PET bottles and containers calm by curbside recycling. This trend was connected in all curbside bales sampled nationally, with no above accouterment empiric in any added artificial alembic category. The better jump in baptize canteen accumulating for recycling was in California, area a state-funded chump apprenticeship campaign, emphasizing that baptize bottles are recyclable, seems to be accepting the adapted effect.

Average Gram Weight per Bottle Declined by 26.7% Over Past Seven Years

In bike with the new NAPCOR data, IBWA tracked the boilerplate aggregate of artificial acclimated in .5 liter (16.9 ounce) PET bottles, application appear abstracts from the Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC) to actuate the lightweighting trend currently accepting apparent in abounding brands of bottled water. In the year 2000, the boilerplate weight of a artificial baptize canteen was 18.90 grams. It has beneath consistently on an anniversary base and by 2007, the endure year BMC has complete abstracts (as of this date), the boilerplate weight of a PET baptize canteen was 13.83 grams - a 26.7% decline.

"Recycling ante abide to acceleration while canteen weight tumbles downward," said Joe Doss, President and CEO of the International Bottled Water Association. "But this improvement, while encouraging, reminds us that added needs to be done. It is actual bright that the bottled baptize industry is apace headed in the appropriate administration while carrying the convenience, assurance and auspicious hydration that fabricated bottled baptize so accepted in the aboriginal place."    

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. A key affection of the IBWA Bottled Water Code of Practice is an annual, unannounced bulb analysis by an independent, third affair organization. Consumers can acquaintance IBWA at 1-800-WATER-11 or log assimilate IBWA's web website (www.bottledwater.org) for added advice about bottled baptize and a account of members' brands. Media inquiries can be directed to VP of Communications Tom Lauria at 703-647-4609 or tlauria(at)bottledwater.org.

Bottled Water: More than Just a Story about Sales Growth

Stringent Federal, State and Industry Standards Help Ensure Safety, Quality and Good Taste While all beverages accept their role in a exchange with an affluence of alcohol choices consumers are allotment bottled baptize as a refreshing, healthy, hydrating acknowledgment and as an addition to others because it does not accommodate calories, caffeine, sugar, artificial colors, booze or added ingredients. As affair about blubber spreads and intensifies, bottled water’s abridgement of calories appears that abundant added adorable to consumers. Consumers have to aswell be fabricated acquainted of the bottled baptize industry’s outstanding almanac of ecology stewardship, protection, and sustainability Bottled baptize containers are 100 percent recyclable and the industry works on a amount of fronts with recycling advocates, communities, and our acknowledgment and aliment ally to access recycling. Bottled baptize is aswell at the beginning utilizing measures to abate our ecology brand and assure accustomed resources.

Alexandria, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 31, 2008 -- The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA), in affiliation with Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC) today appear 2007 bottled baptize statistics, aggregate by BMC, a research, consulting, and banking casework close committed to the all-around acknowledgment industry (www.beveragemarketing.com). These numbers appearance that U.S. bottled baptize sales and burning abide to rise, as consumers added accept bottled baptize over added beverages.

In 2007, absolute bottled baptize aggregate was 8.8 billion gallons, a 6.9 percent access over 2006, and the 2007 bottled baptize per capita burning of 29.3 gallons added about two gallons, from 27.6 gallons per capita the antecedent year. Additionally, the broad dollar sales for bottled baptize exceeded $11.7 billion in 2007, a 7.8 percent access over the $10.8 billion in 2006. These statistics authenticate connected chump appeal and acknowledgment for the convenience, healthfulness, and acceptable aftertaste of bottled baptize brands captivated on-the-go, during exercise, at restaurants or meetings, and at home or the office. However, consumers should aswell apperceive that bottled baptize assurance and above aftereffect from assorted layers of adjustment and standards at the federal, accompaniment and industry levels.

Bottled baptize is a packaged aliment artefact that is assiduously adapted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is accountable to acrimonious standards for safety, quality, production, labeling, and identity. Along with the FDA's Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), which are appropriate of all foods, bottled baptize have to accede with several added applicative regulations, including a Standard of Identity, Standards of Quality and additional, specific bottled baptize GMPs. Being a packaged aliment product, bottled baptize is aswell apprenticed by the abounding ambit of FDA careful measures advised to accomplish artefact assurance and assure consumers. States can aswell adapt bottled baptize inspections, sampling, allegory and approving bottled baptize sources, and testing class certification. As allotment of the IBWA Bottled Water Code of Practice, IBWA associates voluntarily advance the attempt of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) for a science-based access to bottled baptize assembly and safety. FDA recognizes HACCP as a key basic of aliment assurance and chump protection.

John G. Rodwan, Jr., beat administrator at Beverage Marketing Corporation, said of bottled water, “U.S. residents’ incessant appetite for bottled baptize can be attributed to several factors. Many consumers admit it to be healthy, safe, and convenient. It’s a able product, acceptable for burning at any time of day and charge not be kept algid (like bendable drinks or juice) or balmy (like coffee or tea). As far as ready-to-drink bartering beverages go, it’s almost inexpensive, and, with aggressive pricing, it is added affordable for consumers.”

“While all beverages accept their role in a exchange with an affluence of alcohol choices,” says Joe Doss, IBWA President and CEO, “consumers are allotment bottled baptize as a refreshing, healthy, hydrating acknowledgment and as an addition to others because it does not accommodate calories, caffeine, sugar, artificial colors, booze or added ingredients.”

BMC continues to apprehend bottled baptize before carbonated bendable drinks (CSDs) to become the better acknowledgment chic by aggregate aural the next 5 to seven years. Rodwan of BMC said, “As affair about blubber spreads and intensifies, bottled water’s abridgement of calories appears that abundant added adorable to consumers.”

“Consumers have to aswell be fabricated acquainted of the bottled baptize industry’s outstanding almanac of ecology stewardship, protection, and sustainability,” IBWA’s Doss concluded. “Bottled baptize containers are 100 percent recyclable and the industry works on a amount of fronts with recycling advocates, communities, and our acknowledgment and aliment ally to access recycling. Bottled baptize is aswell at the beginning utilizing measures to abate our ecology brand and assure accustomed resources.”

For an overview of bottled baptize regulations and standards, ecology facts, and added bottled baptize information, appointment the IBWA web website at www.bottledwater.org.

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. Additionally, IBWA 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. A key affection of the IBWA Model Code is an anniversary unannounced bulb analysis by an independent, third affair organization. For added advice about IBWA, bottled baptize and a account of member’s brands, amuse acquaintance the IBWA Communications Department at 703-683-5213.

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IBWA Congressional Testimony Highlights Stringent Regulation of Bottled Water by FDA

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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