Japan turns up nose to smelly U.S. bottled water

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Eight million bottles of water from the U.S. came off the shelves in Japan, due to complaints from consumers that the product had a medicinal and insecticidal odor. Reuters reports that the firm — CG Roxane LLC — reports no abnormalities in the water. Marketed as Crystal Geyser in Japan, the bottled beverage garnered 75 calls of concern before a recall was issued.

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Source: Reuters