Mineral water scandal: in Perrier, the senators want to shed light “on fraud”

< img class = "responsive-Img" SRC = "https://images.midilibre.fr/api/v1/images/view/67a6635ec70a813a97066549/large/image.jpg?v=1" Alt = "Senators Ouizille, Burgoa, Guhl and Grand, this Friday in the Gard." >Senators Ouizille, Burgoa, Guhl and Grand, this Friday in the Gard. L.T. < P Class = "Article-Full__CoPo" >An investigation commission has relocated its work in the Gard to try to understand how Nestlé deceived & ndash; and trompe still & nbsp; ? & ndash; Consumers on the quality of its waters.

< P > The Nestlé group was guilty of fraud on its emblematic site of Perrier in Vergèze ? for the Senators of the commission of inquiry “mineral waters”, who came this Friday in the Gard As part of their work on the offenses of the sector revealed by the media in January 2024, the answer is clear: “< EM > Yes, there was fraud “, replied the tac to the tac the senator Antoinette Guhl, after a series of meeting with local actors of the file. < EM >“A label fraud in a certain way, since natural mineral water has long underwent prohibited treatments; fraud on water quality, wells having been downgraded. No one disputes it” . < P > The rapporteur of the commission of inquiry, Alexandre Ouizille, who the day before had put on the grill the prefect of Gard and the regional director of ARS, also said that during the visit From the factory in the morning, they have been shown the sliding cupboards which, for years, < EM > “hid the health authorities the illegal gross mineral water treatment devices” . In all transparency ? < EM > “On this past, a passive rather, Nestlé still finds it difficult to answer. Their lawyer asked the employees whom we questioned not to answer any questions about these subjects “, he added. < H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > more blurred than crazy < P > Perrier, it was therefore more vague than crazy … and the question is today to know if fraud continues. Always for Senator Ouizille, decidedly sparkling on the subject, it is always impossible to say today, with regard to the regulations in progress, that Perrier produces natural mineral water. < EM > “for me, It's no.have certainly disappeared, but there remains this microfiltration at 0.2 micron, in place at numerous production points. Does it have a disinfection effect ? for the Directorate General of Health, it is yes. For the Gard prefect, the answer is more complicated. For Nestlé too. We want to get out of this complexity after our work. But today, there is no decree that authorizes the practice “, A hammered Alexandre Ouizille. CQFD ? < P > The presence of these microfilters moreover generally poses the major question of the quality of the raw waters of the underground layers. Are they still able to produce this natural mineral water which has made Perrier's reputation around the world ? < EM > “Three hydrogeologists were mandated by the State to go to the end of this question of purity on the sites “, mentioned the senator again. Their conclusions are eagerly awaited, as they will guide the future of the site. 200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000

< H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > A “opening” feeling < P >Nestlé Waters seems to have anticipated two boreholes in 2023, and thus produce the “Perrier Maison” drinking water which does not meet the same production standards and can be treated. “< EM > which raises a question specific to the Vergèze site: how to ensure that drinking water is not used to fill the bottles of natural mineral water ?”, questioned Antoinette Guhl. On this point, the elected officials were reassured during the visit < EM > “and Nestlé undertakes to demonstrate its control mechanism to the health authorities “.

< P > For the president of the Commission Laurent Burgoa, on his land this Friday, this day also made it possible to put oil in the cogs. < EM > “It was A little tense at the beginning, but we felt a feeling of openness in Nestlé.. The elected officials themselves assured, to their interlocutors as well as to unions or local elected officials encountered in the afternoon, their concern < EM > “to maintain economic activity. We know how essential” . Perrier employs 1,000 employees. < H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > lethargy, political arbitrations… < P > However, Alexandre Ouizille wants to go to the end of the approach and flush all the cogs of a case marked by < EM > “A failure of the control system”, “a form of Administrative lethargy “ and” < EM > of political arbitrations against the opinion of the Director General of Health “. “It's been years since it has been lasting and nothing has been set” , he says, promising, like his colleague Burgoa, to audition by May 20 all actors who would have played a role in this dossier < em >. “Including the Élysée if necessary. We must be able to understand how such fraud could have taken place” . < H2 Class = "insert_title" > nestlé Waters reacts and requests … The authorization to use the microfilters < P > Until the agrave; discrve; Waters, Muriel lienau & ndash; pr & a r & eacute; acted for the first time on Friday. Interrogated & amp; that & quot; < em > la s & eacute; Curit & eacute; consumers' health has always & Assur & eacute; e & quot; . Of m & ecirc; me, she says, & < em > the min & amp; alt & eacute; r & eacute; e & quot; . < EM >& quot; there may be any amplave; Sporadic and amp; quot; , especially in the Gard after the heavy rain, but & quot; < EM > The controls allow them to stop drilling if necessary & . According to her, microfiltration uses it by the Nestl group & eacute; Waters, & quot; < em > & agrave; cartridge & agrave; 0.2 Microm & Egrave; Tre & quot; a M & Ecirc; Effects than that & < EM > C & Eacute; 0.8 microm & These are not means of Disacute; Sinfection & . < em > & quot; c & rsquo; is like & ccedil; a qui & rsquo; we guaranteed the s & food, d & rsquo; elsewhere, we do not recommend & agrave; Whoever it is in amp; an industry of an amp; racte; rer without this microfiltration & quot; , adds the director of Nestl & Eacute; Waters, requesting his authorization by France, if not & quot; < em > a clarification & quot; d e R & eacute; Glementation European & eacute; Ene. I subscribe to read more