Senatorial commission on Perrier: the Presidency of the Republic knew, at least since 2022, that Nestlé had been cheating for years

was aware that this created a distortion of competition with other mineral water producers and was aware of bacteriological and even virological contamination on some wells.

Among the many things Nestlé did to conceal the fraud: removing “the list of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides) that have been banned for some of them for 20 years, such as atrazine. No more PFAS, chlorates and other perchlorates. Above all, the table quoting the frequency of detection of E.Coli bacteria and intestinal enterococci for the period 2020-2023 is out.