Comments on: Soft Drinks in UK contain 300% More pesticides than Tap Water

By: joy

joy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:34:37 +0000

300 times is 30,000% actually.But where this has all gone haywire is that they’re allow to leave a certain amount of pesticide in the drinks.Well at least I know why my bro has been acting so strangely since Christmas…

By: soundwash

soundwash — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:19:06 +0000

heh….i bet US tap water and fizzy drinks are no better.. any findings here, if allowed would be suppressed..

-esp given the recent, last minute gutting of the
clean water act by the EPA.

time to move on top of an aquifir? (and get a long straw) ;p

-s

By: Buzz

Buzz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:04:58 +0000

Okay, so the thing is 300 TIMES the legal “water” limit. That headline was not derived from the original story, it was made up for this blog. The correct headline should read:

“Soft Drinks in UK contain 30,000% More pesticides than Tap Water”

How much room was left for the corn syrup?

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:45:13 +0000

But the pesticides add that “special” kick to an otherwise bland soft drink.

By: bobbo

bobbo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:35:35 +0000

The theologians here won’t believe it, but life is chemicals.

All your chemicals are belong to us.

Silly Hoomans.

By: Improbus

Improbus — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:34:51 +0000

The most dangerous part of these soft drinks is high fructose corn syrup. That is why I drink unsweetened tea or coffee (water if neither of those are available).

By: ECA

ECA — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:21:00 +0000

China??

By: Mr Diesel

Mr Diesel — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:03:15 +0000

Who would have figured that pesticides make your teeth rot out.

By: Alex Wollangk

Alex Wollangk — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:58:09 +0000

When I first read the title of this post I was appalled that there could be more pesticide than water in British soda…

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:16:08 +0000

The correct amount of pesticides in water should be 0.

300 x 0 = 0.

So what’s the problem? – oh yeah – that someone has decided that there’s an allowable amount of pesticides for water.

By: Ah_Yea

Ah_Yea — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:45:45 +0000

NOW we know it’s not the tea making Brits mushy headed!

By: green

green — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:28:24 +0000

OJ on store shelves has the same high pesticide count, they just don’t test for it. The fruits are rinsed not washed, so whatever chemicals were used on the fruit end up in the final product.

Mmmm tasty

By: eyeofthetiger

eyeofthetiger — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:19:00 +0000

Fruits must not be “washed” for processing. What does carbonated water do to the human specimen?

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:17:27 +0000

300% is 3 times the amount. 100% is equal to “1″. With numbers that high, you don’t express it as a percent.

From the article,

Two orange drinks bought in the UK contained imazalil at 300 times the limit permitted for a single pesticide in drinking water.

Two similar products contained 98 times the legal drinking water limit for thiabendazole.

The average level of the total pesticide contamination of the British drinks was 17.4 parts per billion – 34.6 times the EU maximum residue level for water.

To be correct, the headline should have said …”up to 300 times” …

By: Sea Lawyer

Sea Lawyer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:10:00 +0000

Hmm, soft drinks made with juice from pesticide treated fruit contain more pesticides than water?

#6, probably not much since Fanta sold in the United States apparently does not contain real fruit juice.