Nestlé Mineral Water: A State Affair More Than a Health Scandal

Nils Leprêtre and Grégoire Mothe
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A Senate inquiry report published on May 19 reveals that the government, by giving in to Nestlé's lobbying, has become complicit in practices that are more a matter of political scandal than of a health crisis. MiKAEL ANISSET / LE MIDI LIBRE/MAXPPP
For the past year, the giant Nestlé has been accused of using illicit techniques to clean its polluted mineral waters, including those of its Perrier brand. On Monday, May 19, a Senate report shed a little more light on this affair, which was more political than health-related.
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