A French courtroom rejected all claims introduced by UFC-Que Choisir in opposition to Perrier, after the buyer group claimed the agency’s pure mineral water was deceptively labelled.
In early June, UFC-Que Choisir filed an emergency movement with a courtroom in Nanterre close to Paris looking for a recall of all Perrier bottles in circulation, in addition to a short lived ban on gross sales of the pure mineral water.
The case centred on a dispute over the usage of a filtration therapy, which the group mentioned was opposite to French and European legislation. UFC-Que Choisir additionally claimed that the water posed well being dangers.
UFC-Que Choisir insisted that its calls for wouldn’t have triggered Perrier’s Vergèze plant to shut, however it hoped that the bottles produced there can be offered as consuming water and never pure mineral water.
The buyer group famous that pure mineral water sometimes sells for 100 to 300 instances the value of faucet water.
Nestlé says resolution proves Perrier’s meals security is ‘assured’
The courtroom in Nanterre mentioned a well being threat to shoppers was not confirmed to the extent required for an emergency ruling, a ruling welcomed by Nestlé.
“As we speak’s resolution confirms that the meals security of Perrier pure mineral waters has all the time been assured”, it mentioned.
The corporate mentioned it operates below an built-in high quality administration system, shared with, and managed by, the related authorities to make sure the meals security of all its merchandise.
“The outcomes of our analyses are continuously shared with the authorities who usually take a look at our mineral waters, each at supply and the completed product, to verify compliance with the relevant regulatory necessities, together with meals security and high quality requirements.”
UFC-Que Choisir should pay €5,000 to Nestlé, in accordance with a courtroom assertion.
The Nanterre ruling was the most recent twist in a collection of scandals hounding Nestlé in France.
In a 2024 report, the Occitanie Regional Well being Company (ARS) warned of the potential of halting Perrier manufacturing due to persistent bacterial contaminationin water drawn from wells on the Vergèze plant.
An inquiry commissioned by France’s Senate then discovered that the French authorities had lined up the usage of unlawful water therapies for years, significantly with regard to Nestlé.
Nestlé mentioned it has since stopped utilizing these prohibited therapies, as an alternative switching to its present filtration strategies.
