CRITICAL REVIEW

Critical Review

Critical Review

Introduction

Critical analysis of the research studies enables organizations and individual to use the available information through research in the best possible way. For this reason educational institutes encourage students to perform the process of critical analyze the research studies so that they can develop the skills to perform that process of critical analysis and apply the extracted knowledge. The aim and objective of this paper is to conduct the process of analysis of the research study. To fulfil this purpose of the discussion on this topic three different research papers are selected. The following part of the paper presents the critical analysis of the two different research papers.

Discussion

The bottled water industry has also developed a market for so-called premium waters. Such brands include Berg from Canadian glaciers, sold for 33 Euros per bottle in hotels; Peteroa 9500 from Chile, which is marketed on the basis that it has been “filtered through glaciers” over 9,500 years; and Fiji, which touts its sources as among the most pristine in the world. Yet, such waters are shipped thousands of miles around the world, incurring huge carbon footprints. These waters are now increasingly evaluated in much the same way as fine wines would be described at a wine tasting, leading to the publication of the first connoisseurs' guide to “fine waters” in 2006. How ever, blind taste tests with consumers have failed to produce any discernible differences between bottled and tap water (Ohno , et al., 2007, pp.191-197). Notwithstanding this fact, it is a standard part of many restaurants' business model to push higher-margin bottled waters on customers, raking in between $200 and $350 million per annum from bottled water sales alone, but also triggering an “Ask for Tap” backlash in the United Kingdom (Barton, 2008, pp.588-603).

Many bottled water brands base their publicity on the advertised “purity” of their product (Data retrieved from, http:/ / www.britishbottledwater.org). In this regard, public health messages about drinking at least two liters of water per day appear to have been capitalized on by bottled water companies seeking to portray their products as the only safe way to meet this, by now well-recognized, healthy living requirement. Some dieticians warn that this form of advertising could in fact spur rates of obesity and hypoglycemia, as so many bottled water products including “vitamin water” have added sweeteners (Barton, 2008, pp.588-603).

Bibliographic Information about the Selected Research Papers

The first research paper that is selected is titled as “Chemometric Processing of Ion Chromatograms -Application to Comparative Analysis of Polish Bottled Mineral and Spring Waters. This research is conducted by Eliza Blicharska, Lukasz Komsta, Ryszard Kocjan, Anna Gumieniczek2, Agnieszka Wisniewska. The research is published in 2010 in the journal of Environment Study Vol. 19, No. 5.

The title of the second study is “Survey of trace elements (Al, As, Cd, Cr, Co, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Se, and Si) in retail samples of flavoured and bottled waters”. This study is published by Food Additives and Contaminants: Part B ...