eau fabrication

18:25 Aug 9, 2017 

and ingredients, an interesting story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3809539.stm

16:36 Aug 8, 2017 

Thanks for that: that's exactly how I'd always previously understood it, when I've seen 'process water' opposed to (say) 'services water' — water used in the process; this appears a great deal in pharma contexts, for example. We've had it before in EN > FR, I'm pretty sure.

16:34 Aug 8, 2017 

I agree! I think the writer was looking for a more hi-falutin word that meant 'water used in manufacture', and was unaware of the specific technical connotation of this particular term.

12:40 Aug 8, 2017 

According to this reference (https://books.google.fr/books?id=URTLBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA106&lpg=P... process water is required to comply with the highest local standards for drinking water. Maybe the list of ingredients is just covering any traces of process water that may be left in the product. This is just an idea, of course! In this instance, it does not actually seem very likely, given the high percentage of "process water" (30.21%) mentioned. This could indicate that the term is indeed being used incorrectly in this text.

09:46 Aug 8, 2017 

This document is all about process water: http://www.allianceforwaterefficiency.org/uploadedFiles/Reso... It doesn't seem at all likely that "process water" should be included in a list of ingredients. However, "process water" looks like the correct tranalation of "eau fabrication".

07:15 Aug 8, 2017 

It does seem that plain "water" would be better. I'll check with the client and report back if there are any other insights. Thanks to one and all for chipping in! I've learned a lot about water in the last day or so.

07:04 Aug 8, 2017 

Thanks!
Certianly, for the charlottes, one can see that there is a kind of say 'bavaroise' involved, so water would indeed be needed to make that with the gelatine etc.
So it does make sense as an ingredient.
However, I can't help feeling that if just plain 'eau' is used elsewhere, they are not really making the proper technical distinction with 'process water', and I would agree with Phil and Michele that your source text is probably wrong and you need to translate HERE as simply 'water' — it sounds as if possibly different people have written different parts, and not been consistent with their terminology.

04:58 Aug 8, 2017 

"Eau fabrication" appears in the list of ingredients for the Charlottes, and three types of choc-ices. Not sure if that helps! Plain "Eau" is listed elsewhere in many ingredients.

04:14 Aug 8, 2017 

The files I'm dealing with here are small Excel spreadsheets, each containing a table headed up "INGREDIENTS" and giving the percentages of each item. Here's the list of ingredients for the Raspberry/Passion Fruit Charlottes:

EAU FABRICATION
BISCUIT CUILLER
SUCRE CRISTALLISE
PUREE FRAMBOISE
CREME FRAICHE 35% MG
PREPARA TION FRAMBOISE
CONCENTRE DE FRUIT DE LA PASSION
FRAMBOISE ENTIERE
POUDRE LAIT 0% SPRAY FRANCAIS
JAUNE D'ŒUF
GELAINE
CONCENTRE DE CITRON JAUNE
GELATINE / EMULSIFIANT
EMULSIFIANT
STABILISANT
COLORANT ROCOU / CURCUMA

and the percentage of "eau fabrication" is 30.21% - it's at the top of the list. So I'm pretty sure it's an ingredient.

I've got another batch of 30 files which are similar. I'll take a look and see if this crops up again in these.

20:20 Aug 7, 2017 

Can you confirm this is actually an 'ingredient'? Neither of those items seems likely to contain a great deal of water, if any; maybe it would help to give us the whole list as it appears?
I'm thinking this is possibly water consumed in making these items, but not actually contained within them?