2006-08-30 11:56:28 · 23 answers · asked by harry w 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
There are two main types of sterilisation that all food and drink manufacturers use. The first is the use of Perasetic acid that gives an instant kill to most pathogens (bugs that make you ill). The second is by the use of steam. Holding a steam temperature of above 120 degrees in the product line for 15 minutes will kill virtually all pathogens. However, some bacteria form spores when they know the surroundings are becoming dangerous for them. These spores are virtually indestructable and can last for millions of years in ice frozen soil for instance. The only way to make totally sterile drinks would be to make them radioactive and that wouldn't be good! The manufacturer cannot guarantee that their product is free of pathoogens and gives it a 'use by' to minimise their liability. Packaging deterioration is the other reason for the BBD.
2006-08-30 12:00:40 · answer #1 · answered by Starcraft 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Drink an out dated mineral water.
2006-08-31 05:13:50 · answer #2 · answered by Red Scorpion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The water isn't recycled through the spring, it flows through it. The water in the bottle stays there. The spring water is constantly freshened. The bottled water is never freshened.
2006-08-30 18:58:23 · answer #3 · answered by © 2007. Sammy Z. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because old water sitting in a bottle tastes like the bottle and all its dissolved oxygen pops out and then when you drink it, it tastes totally flat and nasty. OK if you're in a bomb shelter avoiding nuclear fallout, but not good otherwise.
Also, bottle seals aren't totally 100% hermetically sealed, so a little bit of yuck can get in your bottle and grow and grow and grow...then you get little blobs of mold and sh!t in your water. Best to drink it by its sell-by date.
2006-08-30 19:04:12 · answer #4 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the FDA requires it and because the company who produces it doesn't want to get sued by the consumer for some crazy unknown stuff about the water or bottle.' It's all politics.
2006-08-30 19:02:45 · answer #5 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like your thinking!!!
Maybe it's all the crap they use in the bottling process, which of course means they are ruining pure mineral water!!!
By the way, why does it cost so bloody much, after all it's only water!!!!!!!!!
2006-08-30 19:02:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is cos it has been touched by humans and cos it is still, not flowing, it has a "sell by date" on the bottle
2006-09-02 16:22:42 · answer #7 · answered by frankmilano610 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not really mineral water is pee from the mountain goats filtered for 1000s of years down a mountain that the same goats shite on.
Yuk never drink the stuff.
2006-08-30 19:06:13 · answer #8 · answered by timone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because when you bottle it the microorganisms init start to multiply and make it unhealthy after being sealed in a bottle
2006-08-30 19:02:43 · answer #9 · answered by glass_city_hustla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So... you really believe it's spring water, and not municipal city tap water from a hose?
2006-08-30 20:46:44 · answer #10 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋