Wow. Just Wow.
This ties in so well with the other news article about how the US is turning into a developing country for some segment of the population.
At the time of, and in the location of, the testing, the legal limit was higher. As such the water with legal and within limits.
Since that time the legal limit has been lowered and consumer reports thinks they should go even lower, which makes the retrospective information look very bad.
But your comments about developing country are quite misplaced because you left out all the relevant details.
>Since that time the legal limit has been lowered and consumer reports thinks they should go even lower, which makes the retrospective information look very bad.
It does not matter what CR thinks. What matters is that at this moment in time, the amount of arsenic in the bottled water exceeds the present (lowered) legal limit.
Following your argument will be similar to telling the police officer that you should be allowed to speed because the legal speed limit on the road used to be higher.
For those that haven't read the article: Federal limits are 10ppb (parts per billion), CR says they should be 3ppb because of medical research that shows drinking water at that level for extended periods is unhealthy. Levels detected were 17ppb.
From TFA:
>Beverage giant Keurig Dr Pepper provided CR in March with Peñafiel's bottled water quality report for 2018, which stated that the water had nondetectable amounts of arsenic. But the company said this week that it had conducted new testing, because of CR’s questions, and confirmed levels above the federal limit, at an average of 17 ppb.
You understand we are talking about a bottle of water in 2013?
The OP was acting like the FDA is some 3rd world regulatory agency because they didn't have a time machine.