Prunes are not a laxative, EU rules

Telegraph UK ^

[Arthurio]

It comes after the organisation was mocked last month a ruling that led to a ban on claims that drinking water can prevent dehydration.

Despite a long held belief that prunes, traditionally served with custard, are good for improving bowel function, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has ruled this is not the case.

Its experts said there was "insufficient" evidence of a link between the dried plums and normal bowel function after looking at three studies of prune consumption.

Sir Graham Watson MEP has now challenged an EU Commissioner to a prune-eating contest after his food safety committee ruled that prunes do not have a laxative effect.

[Candor7]

Stewed Prtunes in their own juice will indeed make one poop.

Dried figs will also make one drop and stoop

But best of all for liberals is a kick in the a$$,

Who can't seperate shinola from $hit, in their moral morass.

[faithhopecharity]

These bureaucraps don’t know from shit (so to speak). When they finally destroy Europe, they could qualify for jobs in Wash DC

[TigersEye]

The UN issues a sigh of relief at no longer being the most hopeless organization on the planet.

[Republican Wildcat]

Drinking water won’t keep you from keep you from drying up and eating a bunch of prunes won’t make you get the runs. That is now the “law of the land” in Europe.

Keep this for the next time when someone says we should “be more like Europe.”

[Republican Wildcat]

Drinking water won’t keep you from drying up and eating a bunch of prunes won’t make you get the runs. That is now the “law of the land” in Europe.

Keep this for the next time when someone says we should “be more like Europe.”

[TigersEye]

And you thought the PRC was stupid when they forbid Tibetans from reincarnating.

[ntnychik]

I guess nothing’s fact until a socialist decrees it.

If water doesn’t cure dehydration, then they can Schiavo you more efficiently.

[Sporke]

They’re full of Sh..

[Republican Wildcat]

There are no words in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this stupidity

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I mean seriously - the events of this news story could have been written as a fiction comedy skit on SNL or something like that and would have been hilarious - but it isn't - this is real life. Highly educated, highly credentialed, highly paid experts making government policy that is now the binding law of the land for the European Union - a supposedly refined beacon of civilization to the world. What in the world is going on here? Good grief!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

That’s clever!

[MetaThought]

They’re gonna start pushing Brawndo any day now.

[dr_lew]

If water doesn’t cure dehydration ...

The absurdity hinges on a much finer point of rhetoric, and this should be appreciated. The suppressed claim was made for "bottled water", and the objection was that there is nothing about bottled water in particular that protects against dehydration. Hence, the claim was proscribed.

[Aria]

Are you kidding???? LOLOL!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bottled water, spring water, well water, who should care. As long as it’s not trumpeted somehow as “better” — then it’s true.

[Olog-hai]

Wrong. It was declared for all H₂O, not bottled water specifically; purveyors of bottled water were unfairly targeted too, because water does indeed relieve dehydration whether bottled or no, and no purveyor of bottled water ever claimed that their water was superior at relieving dehydration versus water from other sources nor claimed that only bottled water could relieve dehydration.

The EU is indefensible here, never mind on just about every point on subjects ranging far beyond this one.

[dr_lew]

Maybe it’s true, but it’s MISLEADING, you see. It gives people the idea that they need to buy bottled water to avoid dehydration, and this a BAD THING, since we all know that bottled water is a BAD THING, on other grounds.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The fact that for a lot of people it’s NICER gets completely lost. People might want to buy bottled water because it’s NICE. And you don’t have to wash and fill your own bottles.

[dr_lew]

Wrong. It was declared for all H2O, not bottled water specifically.

I find this:

However, last February, the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) refused to approve the statement.

A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.

Now the EFSA verdict has been turned into an EU directive which was issued on Wednesday.

... which certainly supports your claim

[fieldmarshaldj]

"There are no words in Elvish... for this stupidity"

Prunes might've saved the King from his date with eternity.