the Hydra was a water serpent. But the Express headline "Water is not healthy" simply isn't what the EU said, or even what the story says. You should know better than to quote the Express as an authority on anything, Kayless. What next, citing the Mail?
Not over-priced 'bottled-at-source' designer water.......it will quench thirsts but to act as a medical rehydrant it will need additional salts and sugars.
the claim for the water wasn't that it was good for rehydration, but that it reduced the risk of dehydration in the first place. This isn't quite the same thing; but anyway the scientists said no it didn't.
Sounds like a case of a word having different meanings in everyday speech and medical terms (same as "schizophrenic"). In effect the EU has said that you can't use the word "dehydration" in its ordinary meaning because people might think it's the medical meaning and assume water will cure it, which it doesn't. That seems fair enough to me.
When the EU rules that you can't claim "water quenches thirst", then complain.
The French only obey the rules they like, we are unfortunately infiltrated by anti British, lefty Euphiles that obey all the rules so the Eu know they can make up any crackpot rule and the british will obey.
Andrew, it's not rehydrOtion for the simple reason that -ation is a standard suffix in English to indicate an action, process, condition or result. Thus, we have immigrAtion, consultAtion, relaxAtion and multitudes of similar instances.