1 percentage points from the same quarter last year, which is a result of the lower sales of higher margin Biochemicals, increases in raw material costs in excess of recently introduced price increases, and lower margins on the aziridine products.
10. Bottled water has a better safety record than tap water. If you doubt this, Google âpublic water contaminationâ and âbottled water recalls,â and compare the hits. Public water problems outscore BW problems by orders of magnitude, and have caused more than a few fatalities. This is not an abstract issue for me.
Bottled water may be no safer or healthier than tap water, while selling for up to 1,000 times the price, the report said. The reason, according to the environmental group, is an absence of standards regulating bottled water. In fact, said the report, there are more standards regulating tap water in Europe and the United States than those applied to the bottled water industry.. From Source to Finished Product.