DRINKING too much mineral water could make you glow, but not with health. There is so much natural radioactivity in some Hungarian brands of bottled water that regular drinkers could exceed the World Health Organization’s safety limit.
Radioactivity gets into water with minerals from rocks. A study by scientists from the University of Veszprém in Hungary found high levels of radium-226 in three out of 18 commercial mineral waters. People drinking a litre or more a day could breach the limit of 100 microsieverts a year recommended for drinking water, by the WHO, they say (Radiation Protection Dosimetry, vol 108,…
