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"Real Water" that poisoned dozens contained chemical from rocket fuel (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] nuke@yah.lol 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"These people were outrageous," Kemp said. There was "no safety testing, no analysis of the product to see what was in it." He said that the person who developed the water treatment process for Real Water bought the titanium tubes "from some Russian guy in the 80s" and spent four to five months making alkaline waters in his garage, working until he had a formula that didn't make him vomit or have diarrhea.

JFC

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

oh fucking hell

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

If dysentery is your starting point, you have fatally fucked up your water business.