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Letter: Pure as mud

Published 17 August 2002

From Robert Matthews

Feedback asks in what sense is the cranberry juice drink “pure” (27 July). An overpaid corporate lawyer would no doubt point to that word “drink” as the get-out. With all that added stuff, it sure isn’t pure cranberry juice, but who’s to say it’s not a pure cranberry juice drink?

Given the chlorine disinfectant, aluminium brightener and other stuff added to our water supply, it can surely be only a matter of time before corporate lawyers warn the water boards to refer to the liquid they send us as “Pure liquid water drink”.

Oxford

Issue no. 2356 published 17 August 2002

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