On 8/19/03 9:23 AM, "Judith Hayman" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> A member on the list mentioned bottled water for mixing formula during an
> evacuation.  I'd like to note that bottle water must be boiled for infant,
> because it can contain a bacterial load that is _higher_ than most municipal
> water.
>

Here is a news release about a study done in 2000 and published in the
"Archives of Family Medicine" comparing the fluoride and bacteria levels in
57 samples of bottled water to tap water:

"One of the reasons people choose to drink bottled water instead of tap
water is because of the perceived purity of bottled water," the researchers
observe, and indeed, 39 samples of bottled water were found to be purer than
the tap water. However, 15 samples of bottled water had significantly higher
bacteria levels than the tap water. Of these 15, the bacteria counts were
more than twice as high as the most contaminated tap water sample and almost
2,000 times higher than the purest tap water sample."

http://www.cwru.edu/pubaff/univcomm/water.htm

-- Jodine Chase

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