Bottled water withdrawn from market

A BATCH of bottled water was recently withdrawn from the market as unsuitable and operation of the bottling plant concerned has been suspended.

“The operator has cancelled his production until he manages to sort out his recurring problems,” Chief Health Inspector Lakis Anthousis said yesterday.

Anthousis did not name the brand involved, but said consumers had not been put at risk because the unsuitable water had been withdrawn before it got to shop-shelves.

“He (the producer concerned) only bottles water periodically and always gets us to check it before he markets it,” the official said.

“He has had various problems with different batches but always ceases production when a problem crops up,” Anthousis said.

He did not specify what the latest problem had been, but newspaper reports suggested water had been found with fungi and detergent residues.

The Health Ministry checks all bottled waters on the market on a monthly basis and also tests the water sources used at similar intervals.

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