illegal filtration methods to mask contamination<\/a> from bacteria and pesticides in its mineral water products.<\/p>\nBut in Nanterre, France, where amid the scandal consumer group UFC-Que Choisir initiated legal proceedings to suspend sales and recall all Perrier bottles marketed as \u201cnatural\u201d mineral water, that issue has been settled. The French court threw out the case, contending there\u2019s not enough evidence that microfiltration methods pose a serious health risk, nor that Nestl\u00e9\u2019s actions warrant an urgent suspension and recall. <\/p>\n
UFC-Que Choisir has been ordered to pay Nestl\u00e9\u2019s legal costs, reported at \u20ac5,000. The consumer group president Marie-Amandine St\u00e9venin says the decision is \u201cdisappointing\u201d. \u201cFrom a health perspective, must we wait until people are seriously ill before this issue is addressed seriously? From an economic perspective, what message is being sent to both consumers and the market?\u201d<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Nestl\u00e9\u2019s is welcoming the call. \u201cThis decision reconfirms that the food safety of Perrier natural mineral waters has always been guaranteed and that under the current circumstances, Perrier natural mineral water can continue to be sold,\u201d said a company spokesperson.<\/p>\n
The court didn\u2019t rule on the overall legality of Nestl\u00e9\u2019s water treatment practices, but the outcome is unlikely to hurt its plans to sell part of its waters business<\/a>. Evidence of health risks from filtration could deter potential partners, yet whether a scandal jeopardizes a deal depends on financial and reputational fallout. For UFC-Choisir\u2019s case in Nanterre, neither appears to pose a threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is the Nestl\u00e9 Perrier filtration scandal? Summary French court dismissed lawsuit seeking recall of Perrier mineral water…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[186566,9407,2000,299,786,36,44888,7746,38596,186567],"class_list":{"0":"post-592807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-brand-name","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-food-and-drink","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-horizontal","15":"tag-label","16":"tag-no-people","17":"tag-perrier"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}