In an attempt to standardize language to describe food and food processing and to protect the consumer from potentially false claims, some bureaucracies don’t know when to call in their logic team. Here’s the latest example:

EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.

Yes, you read that right. Since it has not been proven that water actually prevents dehydration, it would be misleading to label the bottle with that claim so such language is now banned in the EU. Really.

Yes, it took them three years of study to negate a previously undisputed fact. That implies that it wasn’t a fact. Am I anti-science if I still believe water is good for me?

As noted, history will not be kind to these folks.