The marketing of water continues, and now OGO tries to convince us that if we drink this special magical oxygen water, we’ll get a burst of energy from all of the oxygen we’ve consumed.
The company claims:
Every cell in your body needs oxygen. And the more oxygen you take in the healthier you feel. That’s why there’s so much of it in OGO. We squeeze up to 200mg of oxygen into every liter. That’s 35 times more than you’ll find in regular water. No wonder it’s called “the breathing water”.
A blogger on Gizmodo says:
"Now wait. We’re certain there are scientists in our reading audience who can help us out with this. Isn’t this impossible? Oxygen is O2, and water is still H2O, right? If you swallow liquid oxygen, which we were under the impression must be at a very cold temperature to be a liquid, then do you digest the oxygen before it turns you into a human popsicle? Have the laws of physics been altered to create this magnificent product?"
Check out what people thought about this:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/ogo-the-breathing-water-183708.php
I am curious like the others if this is real and if it actually does you any good to drink water like this. It seems fishy to me, just to get you to buy it. I think I'll stick with my dasani anyway, but I am curious. Has anyone had this water?
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Dasani!!!!!!!!
Things get worse with Coke
Bottled tap water withdrawn after cancer scare
Felicity Lawrence, consumer affairs correspondent
Saturday March 20, 2004
The Guardian
First, Coca-Cola's new brand of "pure" bottled water, Dasani, was revealed earlier this month to be tap water taken from the mains. Then it emerged that what the firm described as its "highly sophisticated purification process", based on Nasa spacecraft technology, was in fact reverse osmosis used in many modest domestic water purification units.
Yesterday, just when executives in charge of a £7m marketing push for the product must have felt it could get no worse, it did precisely that.
The entire UK supply of Dasani was pulled off the shelves because it has been contaminated with bromate, a cancer-causing chemical.
So now the full scale of Coke's PR disaster is clear. It goes something like this: take Thames Water from the tap in your factory in Sidcup, Kent; put it through a purification process, call it "pure" and give it a mark-up from 0.03p to 95p per half litre; in the process, add a batch of calcium chloride, containing bromide, for "taste profile"; then pump ozone through it, oxidising the bromide - which is not a problem - into bromate - which is. Finally, dispatch to the shops bottles of water containing up to twice the legal limit for bromate (10 micrograms per litre).
The Drinking Water Inspectorate confirmed yesterday it had checked the Thames water supplied to the factory and found it free of bromate. Because it is unsafe at high levels, standards for bromate in tap water are strictly monitored.
Bromide is a naturally occurring trace chemical which has a sedative effect. It is said to have been added by the British army to soldiers' tea during the second world war to dampen down their lust. But when it is oxidised into bromate it becomes "a pretty nasty carcinogen", according to David Drury, one of the principal inspectors for the DWI.
"I've checked Thames water's supply this morning and it is free of bromate," he said.
The legal limits are set to have a wide margin of safety, and the Food Standards Agency advice yesterday was that while Dasani contained illegal levels of bromate, it did not present an immediate risk to the public.
"Any increased cancer risk is likely to be small. However the levels are higher than legally permitted in the UK and present an unnecessary risk. Some consumers may chose not to drink any Dasani they purchased prior to its withdrawal given the levels of bromate in it," the FSA said.
Coca-Cola said it was voluntarily withdrawing all Dasani "to ensure that only products of the highest quality are provided to our consumers".
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