background and aims. as a result of poor quality of public water supply in many countries, people have recently turned to bottled water consumption, the fluoride content of which is not generally consistent among different brands. this study sought to measure the fluoride concentration of public water supply in comparison with commercial brands of mineral bottled water available in tehran, iran...

background: it is considered that if radon gas is inhaled and ingested, it is the primary health risks for lung and stomach cancers. this paper presents the measurement results of radon activity concentrations both residential tap water and dam water for kastamonu city centre-turkey. materials and methods: the radon activity concentrations of water samples collected from 60 tap waters at four l...

Dear Editors, We read with great interest a letter entitled ‘Cleansing of wounds by tap water? An evidence based systemic analysis’ by Huang et al. (1), commenting on the safety of tap water irrigation in wound cleansing. The tap water irrigation has been reported to reduce colonisation of wounds and infection rates significantly (2,3). It has also been found that the rate of infection and outc...

In 2000 and 2001 Canadians were shocked by water contamination events that took place in two provinces. In 2004 we undertook an internet-based survey across Canada that asked respondents to identify in percentage terms their total drinking water consumption according to one of three sources: tap water, bottled water, and home-filtered water (either some type of container or an in-tap filter dev...

BACKGROUND Although the effects of replacing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) with water on energy intake and body weight have been reported, little is known about how these replacements affect diet quality. OBJECTIVE To simulate the effects of replacing SSBs with tap water on diet quality and total energy intake of Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) adults. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of cros...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS As a result of poor quality of public water supply in many countries, people have recently turned to bottled water consumption, the fluoride content of which is not generally consistent among different brands. This study sought to measure the fluoride concentration of public water supply in comparison with commercial brands of min-eral bottled water available in Tehran, Iran...