Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said the ruling made the “bendy banana law” look “positively sane”.
He said: “I had to read this four or five times before I believed it. It is a perfect example of what Brussels does best. Spend three years, with 20 separate pieces of correspondence before summoning 21 professors to Parma where they decide with great solemnity that drinking water cannot be sold as a way to combat dehydration.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Next Up: Eurocrats Rule That World Is Flat
This is one of those news stories that demonstrates how irrational "experts" can be. The European Union has ruled that sellers of water may not advertise that water prevents dehydration.
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And the gods of the copybook headings, showed use each in our turn,
ReplyDeleteThat Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But not in the EU, apparently.