[Olog-hai]

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filtered bottle water has all minerals removed

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Filtering cannot remove all minerals. The only thing that can do that is distillation—and you'd need to do complex fractional distillation to remove contaminants that have lower boiling points than water. Reverse-osmosis filtration can remove between 90 and 99 percent of inorganic minerals, which puts it in second place, but the water from that is not harmful.

Besides, the stuff we need comes from our food rather than from water. Inorganic minerals don't do anything for us, and either get eliminated from the body via excretory function or stored in our tissues (which can lead to health problems).

[Razzz42]

Well said Olog-hai. Without water you would die from your own filth not being flushed out. Mainly via the kidneys.

If the EU was trying to point out that different brands of bottled water were no better and/or beneficial than tap water then an advisory is all you need, not another freaking law of course unless you need to collect fines to keep the bureaucracy running.

Of course pizza is now a vegetable here in the US so I don’t see much difference between us and them.

[PghBaldy]

We don’t need inorganic minerals? Are you sure that’s right?

[reg45]

Filtering cannot remove all minerals. The only thing that can do that is distillation or reverse osmosis.