[BitVyper]

I... kind of see where the guys who denied them the right to make the claim are coming from, but it's mostly just incredibly pedantic. Like, I guess their position on the matter is that drinking a whole bunch of water water doesn't make your body mitigate dehydration any better, it just hydrates you. Like I could be drinking ten glasses of water a day, but drinking lots of water doesn't make me retain that water any better if I decide to go take a twelve hour walk in the desert. The claim, so we're clear, is “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration.” The guy calling the panel that denied this claim stupid, says “Of course water hydrates," but that's not really what the claim says. Or at least it could be interpretted otherwise.

I mean the whole thing is stupid, but I guess they aren't being totally unreasonable here. This application WAS made for the purpose of testing the law, so you can't really blame them for responding to it as if it weren't something everyone considers self-evident. They're making clear what you can and can't get away with.