Longtime readers will recall that my nephew, Ryan, graduated from Wayne State’s journalism school a few years back. He is now an investigative journalist at Consumer Reports, and published yesterday a story that’s getting picked-up by local television stations across the country and, if the Mueller story ever dies down, could easily become a feature for national network news.
Over the past few years, as consumers have worried more about the quality of municipal tap water, bottled water has surged in popularity. It’s now the nation’s best-selling bottled beverage, according to the International Bottled Water Association. But a CR investigation has found that in some cases bottled water on store shelves contains more potentially harmful arsenic than tap water flowing into some homes.
I’ve read lots and lots of stories like this over the years, and almost always get irritated because the author fails to be mindful of the distinction between permissible levels of a contaminant and safe levels of a contaminant — a mistake that Ryan didn’t make.
So it’s a well done piece of work by somebody who was thinking as he went. Go take a look.