Bottled water no longer ‘safe’

ISLAMABAD:

A government laboratory has named EIGHT mineral and bottled water brands that are unsafe for human consumption-currently available on the open market-with the number one reason being  ‘chemical and microbiological contaminations’.

“[A] comparison of analytical findings with the permissible limits set by the Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) has revealed that eight brands are unsafe due to chemical or microbiological contamination,” says the quarterly report of the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) for January-March 2015.

According to PCRWR – which is a part of the Ministry of Science and Techonology – bottled water brands that were found to be unsafe for consumption include the following brands:

1.Al-Haider

2.Noble

3.Drop Ice

4.Al-Sana

5.Days Pure

6.Effort

7.Aqua Safe

8. Butt