Alaska Premium Beverage & Bottling responds to allegations.KENT, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1996--Contrary to Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. News Stories, Alaska Premium Beverage & Bottling draws its bottling water directly from Blue Lake in Sitka, Alaska “Sitka” redirects here. For the tree, see Sitka Spruce. The City and Borough of Sitka is a unified city-borough located on the west side of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean (part of the Alaska Panhandle), in the U.S. state of Alaska. . Blue Lake is fed by glaciers This is a list of glaciers. Due to somewhat sparse information, some glaciers, especially those in the tropics, may no longer exist as listed. This is especially true for glaciers in Africa and New Guinea. , snowfall and rain, creating the controversy of using the word glacier during packaging, since the water isn't solely from pure glaciers. "The cleanest, purest, best tasting water in the world comes from Alaska. The city of Sitka is lucky enough to have their drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. come from Blue Lake, which is a natural, protected mountain lake fed by a series of glaciers, snowfall and a natural abundance In chemistry, natural abundance (NA) refers to the prevalence of isotopes of a chemical element as naturally found on a planet. The relative atomic mass (a weighted average) of these isotopes is the atomic weight listed for the element in the periodic table. of rain," said company President James Wang. Wang states that the misinterpretations begin with the FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. disallowing bottled water companies to use the word glacier on their lables. The FDA does not recognize glacier as a category of water sources mostly, Wang says, because it is hard to define pure glacier water. Alaska Premium, along with 10 other U.S. and Canada-based water companies, will continue to appeal for approval of the word glacier as a recognized and defined category. The FDA has approved Alaska Premium Beverage & Bottling's new label, and in correspondence with the FDA truth in labeling law, Alaska Premium is changing their water source for the U.S. market to a non-municipal source in Alaska. Using a municipal source of water, such as Blue Lake, has generated allegations of bottled tap water, simply because the municipality MUNICIPALITY. The body of officers, taken collectively, belonging to a city, who are appointed to manage its affairs and defend its interests. draws from the same source. "Changing our source will differentiate us from the majority of other bottled water companies that are bottling and marketing readily available city municipal waters," said Wang. "But we will continue to use our Blue Lake source for our export market, because it is one of the best sources of water in Alaska." Alaska Premium Beverage & Bottling draws their water directly from Blue Lake and ships it to Seattle. Arriving in Kent, the water then goes through an eight-step filtration process in their $4 million bottling facility. Well received internationally, Alaska Premium prides themselves on providing the purest-tasting, highest-quality bottled water in the world. CONTACT: Mike Shelton, 206/251-8866 |
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