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As to the brown colour, a number of critics, such as WicklowLass cited below, argue that foot detox machines are simply AC-DC transformers attached to ferrous electrodes that corrode to generate rust when used to electrolyse the saline water in the footbath.

This theory is backed up by some observers who have found by experiment that their feet didn't need to be in the bath for the brown to appear.

Bravely I sent along my friend Dr Mark Atkins to have himself Aqua Detoxed. He took water samples from the bowl, which we sent off to the Medical Toxicology Unit at New Cross, south-east London. You can only imagine our excitement, especially as they charged us £200 for the analysis. And so - triumphant music - the water taken out before they switched their Aqua Detox machine on contained only 0.54mg per litre of iron (probably from the metal spoon); but afterwards it contained ... 23.6mg/l. Our water, from our kitchen table setup, contained 97mg/l (and it was a bit browner).

But did it extract toxins? "Toxin" is classic pseudoscience terminology. Essentially, the Aqua Detox people are offering dialysis, through your feet. Urea and creatinine are probably the smallest molecules - call them "toxins" if you like - that your body gets rid of, in places like urine and sweat: if "toxins" were going to come out, anywhere, you'd expect those to come out, too. There was no urea or creatinine in the water before the Aqua Detox, and there was none in the water afterwards. Which means, I believe, that we win.

The Guardian Unlimited article has had some impact on how the Aqua Detox and its imitators are marketed. Some marketers admit that the colors are due entirely to electrode conversion, and there is less emphasis on toxin removal and more emphasis on the "balancing" of "energy" that is not measurable with scientific instruments (and is therefore untestable.) But the bottom line is very simple. All such devices should be considered medically worthless.

However did the press manage to arrive at such a misconception? Perhaps via the vendors' own statements? Hydra Detox (www.hydradetox.com) now says that its machine merely rebalances the body: "This type of machine is described as a detox machine because the response of a rebalanced body is to excrete any excess toxins via the kidneys, liver, bowels and skin AFTER the treatment" (their capitals, not mine). But a Google search finds a repeated occurrence of an older marketing tagline "Hydra Detox Foot Spas, simply immerse your feet in water and watch in amazement as the toxins are released through the pores in your feet". Similarly, a Google search also finds many sites for Aqua Detox and Bio Detox stating that you'll "see the excreted toxins in the water", in texts whose near-identical content suggests that the claim was in their manufacturers' blurb.