Mineral Water Fraud Case: What is Nestlé's Microfiltration, Now Banned?
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Water, an essential and threatened resource file
In the park of the Perrier Museum, in Vergèze in the Gard, where a source of the brand is also located, on April 29, 2025. (Diane Edorh/Collectif DR)
This is the end of a truly false physico-chemical controversy, quietly pushed onto the political agenda by Nestlé Waters, which has been haunting the debates of the Senate's commission of inquiry into the practices of bottled water manufacturers for four months. On Wednesday, May 7, the prefects of Gard and Vosges ordered the subsidiary of the Swiss food giant to "withdraw within two months" the microfiltration systems used by Perrier, Contrex, and Hépar.
The highly technical issue has long been a source of dread for the administration. At the end of summer 2021, Nestlé Waters made a terrible confession to the Ministry of Industry. At several of its sites, supposedly pure "mineral water" is being illegally disinfected.
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