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Provides a vivid and disturbing portrayal of how four big companies - Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Danone - dominate the bottled water industry and examines key issues of public concern about their operations.
The fully revised third edition of this unique and comprehensive overview of the science and technology of the bottled waters industry contains brand new chapters which address these new developments. As well as an updated introductory chapter reviewing the market, the degree to which the global legislative and regulatory picture has changed is examined, and new and increasingly-used quality standards are assessed. The book provides a definitive source of reference for all those involved in bottled water production: beverage technologists, packaging technologists, analytical chemists, microbiologists and health and safety personnel.
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The bottled waters industry has become a vital and vigorous sectorof the beverage world, in developed and developing countriesworldwide. Since publication of the first edition in 1998, theindustry has undergone a remarkable expansion, and this has servedto underline the need for an accessible source of technicalguidance. This book is unique in providing an overview of the science andtechnology of the bottled waters industry. The second edition hasbeen strengthened by bringing in a US co-Editor, and the coveragehas been thoroughly revised and considerably extended. A newchapter is included on cleaning and disinfection. The book provides a definitive source of reference for beveragetechnologists, packaging technologists, analytical chemists,microbiologists and health and safety personnel.
The bottled water industry in Mexico represents a new method of providing drinking water to a society without ties to a conventional central piped domestic water supply system. Mexico, the world's leader in bottled water per capita consumption, has struggled to provide reliable, safe drinking water for its citizens. This study examines the context in which the bottled water industry rose to become the primary source of drinking water for a majority of Mexicans. The study shows how the combination of factors allowed the industry's rapid rise from a niche market of elite and 'healing' waters to its present size. The cholera epidemic of the 1990s, the 1985 earthquake, and the financial crisis t...
How and why branded bottles of water have insinuated themselves into our daily lives, and what the implications are for safe urban water supplies. How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good—no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in industry parlance a “fast moving consumer good,” or FMCG? Plastic Water examines the processes behind this transformation. It goes beyond the usual political and environmental critiques of bottled water to investigate its multiplicity, examining a bottle of water's simultaneous existence as, among other things, a product, personal health resource, object of boycotts, and pa...