{"id":16473,"date":"2026-05-20T02:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/16473\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T02:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:44:13","slug":"nestle-waters-sites-raided-in-france-amid-mineral-water-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/16473\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 Waters sites raided in France amid mineral water investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nestl\u00e9 Perrier raids and investigation \u2013 summaryFrench authorities raided two Perrier sites and a Vosges laboratoryRaids involve France anti fraud officers investigating alleged consumer deceptionProbe follows consumer group complaint and earlier Paris headquarters raidsCase centres on water treatments affecting natural mineral water statusNestl\u00e9 says it is cooperating fully<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">Nestl\u00e9 has confirmed raids were carried out on two of its Waters sites in Vergeze, where its most famous water brand Perrier is \u200bbottled, and at a lab in the Vosges \u200bmountains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">The Tuesday raids involved officers \u200bfrom the France anti-fraud department, and form part of an investigation into the Swiss multinational over an \u200calleged \u201cdeceit\u201d. The investigation follows a complaint filed to the Paris prosecutor by a consumer group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">This comes in the wake of raids on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnavigator.com\/Article\/2025\/07\/11\/nestle-offices-searched-as-mineral-water-investigation-intensifies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foodnavigator.com\/Article\/2025\/07\/11\/nestle-offices-searched-as-mineral-water-investigation-intensifies\/\">Nestl\u00e9\u2018s Paris headquarters by French Authorities<\/a> back in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">\u201cWe continue to cooperate fully with the relevant authorities,\u201d a spokesperson for the food and beverage giant said in a statement to Reuters news outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">Perrier \u200bhas been \u200bunder scrutiny \u2060since 2024, when French media reported it had \u200bbeen \u2060using water treatments to prevent contamination, meaning it could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnavigator.com\/Article\/2025\/08\/12\/nestle-under-investigation-over-alleged-mineral-water-fraud-in-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foodnavigator.com\/Article\/2025\/08\/12\/nestle-under-investigation-over-alleged-mineral-water-fraud-in-france\/\">no longer be described \u2060as \u2018\u200bnatural mineral water\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">Nestl\u00e9 is yet to respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 Perrier raids and investigation \u2013 summaryFrench authorities raided two Perrier sites and a Vosges laboratoryRaids involve France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9863,150,12461,12462,5,6572,3328,12463,12464,12465,12466],"class_list":["post-16473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-building","tag-cars","tag-clouds","tag-flags","tag-france","tag-industrial","tag-landscape","tag-nestle-waters","tag-roads","tag-signboard","tag-vittel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}