Mineral water scandal: the Gard authorities on the grill of senators on the Perrier case

< img class = "responsive-Img" SRC = "https://images.mamiLibre.fr/api/v1/images/View/67a6028b71dd6830b75c5028/large/image.jpg?v=1" Alt = "The processes of the#039; Perrier factory, screened by the senators." >The processes of the Perrier factory, screened by the senators. MY. < P Class = "Article-Full__CoPo" >Thursday, 24 & nbsp; hours before going to the Gard to visit the Perrier factory, the members of the senatorial commission & quot; bottled waters & quot; Long auditioned the prefect of Gard Jérôme Bonnet and the director of the RSquo; Regional Health Agency of Occitanie, Didier Jaffre, to question them on their control of the Perrier factory, in Vergèze, where the group Nestlé Waters uses processes not in accordance with regulations.

< P >Twenty-four hours before their visit to the Perrier factory, in Vergèze, the members of the “bottled waters” senatorial commission received on Thursday, the director of the Regional Health Agency of Occitanie, Didier Jaffre, then The Prefect of Gard Jérôme Bonet. Two auditions with a charge, with a rapporteur, the socialist Alexandre Ouizille, who turned into a prosecutor.

< P > He quickly destabilized Didier Jaffre, asking him why, when Nestlé admitted in 2022 to use prohibited treatments, < EM > “concealed in sliding cabinets”, < /EM > He did not understand the public prosecutor by means of article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as did his counterpart of the Grand Est for factories in the Vosges. < EM > “We estimated that insofar as Nestlé, of itself, presented its treatments and its transformation plan to us, we had to focus our action on the withdrawal of these treatments” , replied M. Jaffre. < EM >“But it is a proven fraud that the company shows you. And there is an obligation made to civil servants to bring up all fraud” , then annoyed the Senator Ouizille.

< H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > Sanitary security < P >< EM > I hear your words. But when you learn that all of your authorities are aware, it seems curious “, s 'is still defended Didier Jaffre, who has repeatedly mentioned instructions from the ministries, in particular on the given authorization to use microfiltration less than 0.8 micrometer (0.2 in Perrier), even if it would have a “disinfectant” effect on water, which would no longer be “natural mineral”. < EM > “a blue of Matignon (a note sent by the services of the Prime Minister, editor's note) < EM > tells us that it is authorized, therefore we leave “, replied the regional director of the ARS. Recalling without saying that it is in the menstruals that everything was played, it seems after an intense work of lobbying of Nestlé. 200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000

< iframe width = "640" height = "360" frameborder = "0" AlowfullScreen = "True" scrolling = "no" src = "https://videos.senat.fr/iframe.5029050_67a4a2a76b96" > < P > Didier Jaffre, throughout his hearing, rather defended his priority in this file: “Guaranteeing the health security of the consumer”. He therefore tried to explain to the senators that the repetitive Cévenols episodes make water necessarily more ~ ​​60 ~ EM > “vulnerable”. < EM >“The Perrier remains natural mineral water drawn in depth from the tablecloth. It is up to the rise that external elements can contaminate it. Remove novice things with health, by charcoal treatment or microfiltration, does not call into question its Quality “, pleaded the representative of the ARS, facing a rapporteur … always unconvinced. < EM > “What you describe there is a drink water” that is to say another water category, whose regulations allow it to benefit from treatments. The Transformation Plan of the Perrier factory also consisted in particular in transforming two of the seven drilling into “Maison Perrier” drinking water, a change of strategy also suggested by … the director of the ARS himself in a report recent which had the effect of a media bomb in December.

< H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > Legal microfiltration ? < P > During his hearing, the prefect of Gard Jérôme Bonet was also questioned on this subject. < EM >“Is there a traceability which makes it possible to distinguish, within the factory, the production of natural mineral waters from that of drinking waters ?“, asked the senator Antoinette Guhl, anxious to avoid another form of fraud. < EM > “The sealing of the production lines is part of the current requests addressed to Perrier” , replied the representative of the State, who informed that he Left < EM > “Two months” to the industrialist to comply with the regulations before validating – or not – the request for renewal of the operating authorization of The source. < Iframe width = "640" height = "360" Frameborder = "0" Alowfullscreen = "True" scrolling = "no" src = "https://videos.senat.fr/iframe.5029108_67a4a3d10793" > < P >However, it is on the authorization to continue treatment by microfiltration that the Rapporteur Ouizille tickled the prefect. < EM > “The European Commission estimates that below 0.8 micrometer, the microfiltration of mineral waters is irregular. Why you do not rule ?” “because an inter -ministerial meeting authorized it . ~/EM > answers Jérôme Bonet. Who adds: < em > “The only thing I deduce from texts is this notion that we must not affect the microbism of water. Hence my last request to Perrier d ' Make it the demonstration “. < EM >” What will happen if the demonstration is not made ? “, retorted the senator. Response from the prefect: < EM > “We will question operating authorizations” . Clear as water … Natural mineral I subscribe to read more