How can water expire?!
How can water expire?
I 've just noticed best before Nov 08 on tha bottle. What makes water exprie?
Answers:
From what I understand, FDA rules state that they have to put an expiration date on the bottle. The water does not expire. The water in those bottles will still be water 1000 years from now. If there was a danger of a bacteria infection in the water kicking in, it would happen soon after bottling and not years later. The worst thing I can think of is that the bottle will eventually degrade and weaken and let in bacteria or some other harmful thing and then the water is contaminated and becomes dangerous. However, I do not believe that this will happen to your average plastic bottle under normal conditions before the expiration date stamped on it or even a few years after it.
For plain, bottled water, the water would still be good years after that expiration date.
Something else to note, many water bottlers just get their water from a public water supply. They don't do anything fancy to it, just pump it into the bottle and seal it. They do not do any extra filtering or add any new chemicals. Not all are like this but many are.
Water is God's creation. It is all natural, no sugar, no fat, all real. I think it expires if it's tap water.
See link below for a couple of reasons.
it won't expire at all it good still.
microbes can multiply in the water and as time goes on this increases to a point where the water is unsafe to drink
once it has been opened you have three days
The diarehal Fluids that are added...
To my understanding it has something to do with the oxygen in the water... it goes stale.... for instance if you come across a body of fresh water and it "flows" then it is okay to drink.... if you come across a body of water and it is stagnet and does not "flow" then oxygen is not in the water and it is not good for you to drink... and bacteria is growing in the water.... If you notice... bottle water always says that it comes from springs or waterfalls.... flowing water.... The water in the bottle can only hold oxygen for so long.... that is where the experation date comes in.....
Isn't this FUN all the scientist reporting in.
bacteriologist and chemists
Your answer
Marketing practices
Remove the old stock
make a new colorful label and boost the price.
The water we drink is already about 10,000 years old.
It becomes vapour when it is boiled so I suppose thats the
same as expired.
Because there is no preservative ie. chlorine. To stop any bugs multiplying to dangerous levels. I know someone who got very sick from drinking from an opened bottle which had been left a short time in a car.
because you have to put an expiration date on stuff and cos the bottles they put water in is slightly permeable and picks up smells and tastes from the environment dont ever drink it when its gone off its putrid
Its not very good an hour after I've drunk it. Does that answer the question?
Wrong Bob P. Most Londoners for example drink water that has already passed through seven other people before it runs out of the tap... ENJOY
Good question. I asked my other half this only last week. Like to know the answer as well.