Water doesn't hydrate, pizza's a vegetable, your life is a lie

[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.

[Mr.Bookworm]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

I mean the whole thing is stupid, but I guess they aren't being totally unreasonable here.

No, it is completely and totally fucking unreasonable in anything but the most pedantic sense.

Manufacturers can make ridiculous claims that are either technically true in the most technical sense or outright lies, that's not exactly a state secret. But instead of doing anything about that, the EU chose to plant the fucking line on the claim that water can prevent dehydration.

christ

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm

No, it is completely and totally fucking unreasonable in anything but the most pedantic sense.

Manufacturers can make ridiculous claims that are either technically true in the most technical sense or outright lies, that's not exactly a state secret. But instead of doing anything about that, the EU chose to plant the fucking line on the claim that water can prevent dehydration.

christ

I'm just gonna point to my edit 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.

The wording in this claim about water could potentially allow it to be interpretted as something that isn't really true. Obviously as far as hydration goes, that's not really a concern, but it could be if the claim had been about the benefits of say, a health drink. I don't really know how these applications work, but this one seems like a sleazy way to trick someone into giving you precedent to wield later on.

Edit: As for how long it took... eh, that doesn't mean they actually put a lot of resources and manpower into it.