FDA slams “Real Water” linked to liver failure; water plant manager MIA
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday admonished Nevada-based company Real Water for being uncooperative in a multi-state health investigation linked to its “alkalized” water products. The company is accused of poisoning its customers, causing acute liver failure and other serious health problems in adults, children, and pets.
On March 16, the FDA and the Southern Nevada Health District announced that they were investigating cases of acute non-viral hepatitis (resulting in acute liver failure) in five infants and children, all of whom consumed the company’s alkaline water. The water was the only common link between the five children and infants. Since then, customers have filed several lawsuits making similar claims, including three Californian women who filed a federal lawsuit in Nevada March 22 seeking class-action status.
(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Friday April 02 2021, @08:01AM (8 children)
According to the label the only thing added to it is 25mg/l Potassium Bicarbonate. Seems unlikely to cause liver failure. I suspect there was a contaminated batch.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @11:55AM (1 child)
Same reason you don’t drink sea water if you’re stranded at sea. It will make you even thirstier and kill your kidneys.
(Score: 4, Informative) by EvilSS on Friday April 02 2021, @01:49PM
If you have a blood pH of 9, you are dead. A blood pH of 7.65 is considered extreme alkalosis and is usually fatal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @11:56AM (1 child)
Contaminated by Chinese agents?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @06:11PM
Chinese agents would have used monosodium glutamate.
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Friday April 02 2021, @01:55PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @02:53PM
These are the relults reported a couple of weeks ago when this story first made the news (the original story had more details, but obviously passed under the radar of the click bait brigade, because facts - too much detail is a bad thing when even goldfish have a longer attention span than many humans.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @04:46AM (1 child)
As the first post pointed out the unlisted 'additive' was hepatitis. This has been reported elsewhere. Sorry I don't have a link.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @05:43AM
hepatitis really just means your liver is damaged. Saying the water had hepatitis in it is like saying the water had a headache in it.
The article said non-viral hepatitis, meaning there was some liver damaging poison in the water.