Wednesday, January 13, 2021

What’s Really in Your Bottled Water?

(Click on the image for the Consumer Reports' article)
  • CR recently tested 47 bottled waters, including 35 noncarbonated and 12 carbonated ones. For each product, we tested two to four samples. The tests focused on four heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury), plus 30 PFAS chemicals, which pose special concerns because they can linger in the environment almost indefinitely.
  • Consumer Reports found toxic PFAS chemicals in several popular water brands, especially carbonated ones.