Bromate in mineral water in the hidden secret! !

Source:internet Add Date:2011-04-15

Bromate is a large number of manufacturers in various industries of drinking water disinfection with ozone in the process, inevitably produced a toxic by-products. Disinfection of public drinking water with ozone generated by bromate inorganic disinfection by-products is determined by IARC as a potential class 2b carcinogen.

Military Medical Sciences, Professor Ma Xiuying to bromate standard issue said in a media containing traces of bromate in drinking water, drinking the short term will not harm the health of persons, but the long-term consumption of high bromine salt content in drinking water, will increase the incidence of cancer. In 2006, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention Environmental Health and Related Product Safety technician Yueyin Ling et al, bottled mineral water in supermarkets in Beijing conducted a random sample survey revealed that one of two bottles of mineral water, \"Bromate\" containing more than World Health Organization and the United States Environmental Protection Agency drinking water under the maximum allowable concentration. One of the content, almost the World Health Organization and the United States Environmental Protection Agency provides 5 times the maximum permissible concentration, has some potential carcinogenicity.

March 2004, Coca-Cola bottled water sold in the UK, in a random inspection found \"Bromate\" content far more than the United Kingdom required drinking water standards. The company had to recall the product in Europe overall, for a total amount of as much as 50 million bottles. But in China, although the drinking water industry, this is an open secret, the majority of consumers did not know it. Held in Shanghai last year, the annual national mineral water, specifically on the \"Bromate\" when the topic of internal discussion only to other journalists as \"mixed\" into the hall, to hear some of the industry insider.