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Is Perrier as puree as it claims? Bottled water scandal France


Hugh Schofield

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Main brands like Perrier are under the spotlights after breaking the scandal in France

The French mineral water companies in France are under the focus, as they grow concern about climate change and the environment of the industry.

It is capable of famous worlds, especially the iconic Perrier label, can continue to call “natural mineral water”.

PERRIER case decided in the coming months. The French media appears in the industry Illegal filtering systems that have been widely used in the industry due to the concerns of water pollution, after years of drought-related drought.

“This is really our water door,” says Stéphane Mandard, who has done research in Le Monde newspaper. “It is a combination of industrial deception and state collision.”

“And now Perrier’s head hanging on the head of the head is a real sword.”

According to Emma’s hydrologist, “the commercial model of large producers has worked very well. But it’s not very durable at a time of global climate change.”

“If you have great brands, they have no choice but to treat their water, which means that there is a problem with quality”.

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The EU law says that natural mineral water should be changed between the underground source and the bottle

The story was a year ago when he revealed Le Monde and Radio France, at least one third of the mineral water sold in France was illegally treated with both ultra-violent light or ultraviolet micro networks used to represent bacteria.

The subject was not one of the public health. Treated water was safe to drink.

The problem was according to the EU law, “natural mineral water” – it is believed that it is sold in a huge source water, which is unchanged between the underground source and the bottle. That’s the full point of that.

Marks like Evian, Vichy and Perrier have been successful in France and the world, the image of the mountains, currents, cleanliness and health is attractive.

Allow water filtering and industry breaks the market spell. It can begin to ask what consumers should pay.

The President of Nestlé of Perriz and his company, as well as the President of the Government of Emmanuel Macron, is a load of conspiracy by directors and ministers so that it can be covered by pollution reports and re-writing regulations to continue using the micro-filter.

In research, Le Monde and Radio France believes that government believed that the mineral water industry agreed to eliminate harmful information. A study of the Affanean Senate “deliberately” disseminated to the government.

In response to allegations, the government has asked the European Commission due to the “natural mineral water”, authorized by the level of micro-filtration. Aurelien Rousseau, at the time, he was headed by the Prime Minister, he admitted that he was a “estimated mistake.”

Getty Images Senator Alexandre Ouizille (L) and antoinette Guhl (r), presents the Senate Commission About the French Industrial Mineral Waters at The French Senate, Upper House of the French Parliament, in Paris on May 19, 2025Getty Images

The Senate report concluded that the French government covered the water scandal in the “highest level”

This year, in the Senate Industry, Nestlé’s General Manager of Laurent Freix has approved that Perrier used illegal methods for treating their water.

But he also had another admission: an official report on the Historic Center of the Gard Department of the Company Gard Department of the Gard Department recommended renewal of the “Natural Mineral Water”.

It poses the opportunity for the first time in its 160-year history, Perrier water is not soon labeled as people assume.

According to Emma Heriza Hydrologist, “Climate Change and Global Heating Link is fully established.” And if Perrier feels affecting other companies, it probably distinguishes geographical locations.

Far away from the remote mountain landscape, Perrier’s water is pumped from deep aquifer to the coastal plains between Nîmes and Montpellier, a short Mediterranean disc. The populated area is a lot of farming and very hot.

“It has been a great change in climate since 2017,” says it seizures. “It was a sequence of drought for five years, especially those who felt badly in the south.”

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Emma says climate change that creates many problems in southern France

“All the aquifers were affected. This is not only the upper water table, which is the daily source water. Now we can now see what companies were protected.

“Unexpected is happening. We need to make sure that companies would draw water from deep water and make sure that the entire system cannot be.”

The analysis of hazing and other hydronologists is now a deeper link and a clear connection between surface aquifers. Contaminants that empower the ground in more and more frequent flash floods (farm chemicals or humans) can now do their way in the lower aquifers.

At the same time, the long-term drought and excessive pumping effect means that these lower aquifers are less volume, so more pollution will concentrate, experts say.

“What happened before Perrier’s site can preview that it will happen with other producers. Therefore, we need to turn away the current model of our consumption,” says it seizures.

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Jérémie Pralong emphasized Perrier Hydrologist that water is empty “100%”

Last year in Perrier’s website, three million bottles were destroyed for a contamination. The company, however, stressed that a problem is detected; and claims that contaminants are entering deep aquifers.

“We are pumping underground water 130 meters, under the layers of limestone,” says Jérémie Pralong by Jérémie Pralong. “We are 100% convinced of the cleanliness of the water. And his mineral makeup is constant.”

Perrier says that there is no evidence that does not prohibit the micro-filter. The corresponding text says nothing to disinfect or change water makeup. The argument is completed the measure of the change in the micro-leakage.

The original Perrier fountain hit a doctor in the 1860s, but under the British direction the marks were 50 years later.

St John Harmsworth – Impafates Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere’s brother – became Perrier for the mineral water around the British Empire.

According to the flower company, Harmsworth took inspiration in the form of bottles used by the Indian shape of the bulk after a car accident.

Today Vergèze’s bottling plant is still next to Harmsworth’s residence and its original source. The plant has been automated a lot. The railway track is associated with the SNCF network for hundreds of million cans and bottles to carry Marseille export.

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Perrier’s bottling workshop is still next to the original water source in Vergèze

Last year the focus has been in a new brand: Maison Perrier. These energy and flavored drinks have a great success in France and around the world.

The advantage for Perriz is that new drinks claim that they do not “natural mineral water”. They can be treated and filtered without difficulty.

Perriz says that the brand is part of the mixture, and it does not intend to ignore its original source Perrier’s natural mineral water. Ultra-fine (0.2 micro) microfiltration has stopped and now uses a 0.45 micro system agreed with the government.

“Natural mineral water” has requested only two of the five drills used for Perrier mineral water. The decision is later this year.

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