New contamination has been detected in the bottles of Gard Perrier Factory, and the “complementary bacteriological analysis” are underway after three “non -compliance situations”, the Occitania Ars announced this Friday, April 18 at night in a statement.
According to Radio France information published on Friday, around 300,000 bottles of 75 centiliters of Perrier produced at the Vergèze site, in the GARD, were considered on March 11 as contaminated by “pathogenic bacteria (enterobacteria) after internal control.
Three million Perrier bottles destroyed as caution in 2024
According to Ars’s press release, Ars is studying a total of three “non -conformities situations”, with “complementary bacteriological analysis.”
These are “Product products on March 10 and 11 (369 pallets) for which the operator informed Ars on March 21 a suspicion during its coliform analysis” (Enterobacteria). “These lots remain blocked awaiting the results of new controls,” Ars said.
“This is also the case of a lot of 395 pallets that were subject to a breach report on April 4 after finding the breach operator on March 22 due to a malfunction in the food of the jams.
Finally, the ARS detected the bacteriological non -conformities during the health control carried out on April 10 in wells and traffic lines, “indicates that the agency specifies that” the awards produced on that date (1,018 pallets) were also isolated and blocked by the operator awaiting the results of the new analysis. “
The Ars specifies that in February and March, in February and March, the precedents of non-compliance had given rise to additional analysis that “allowed to re-control the bacteriological compliance” of the lots in question, which were therefore released “by the decision of Ars-Préfet.”
This Friday, Nestlé Waters, a group to which the Maison Perrier brand belongs, had confirmed that certain bottles had been blocked in their stores “for a quantitative overtaking of the natural flora of mineral water (not pathogenic) or after a technical intervention that caused an anomaly.”
For Nestlé Waters, these are classics “Quality Management Process (which) work and guarantee food safety products (DE)”. Therefore, the bottles in question were not put in the market.
In April 2024, three million bottles of Perrier had been destroyed as caution because they are contaminated by bacteria.
Perrier’s “Natural Mineral Water” is at stake
The group said Friday morning that it was “in no way the pollution of the well”, defending its Vergèze factory, in whose exploitation the prefect of Gard Jérôme Bonet must be declared. The name of Perrier “Natural Mineral Water” is at stake.
In early April, hydrogenologists ordered by the French State made an “unfavorable opinion” for the production of the famous bright water under this name.
The report of these experts “was presented at the beginning of April and then submitted to the services of Ars Occitanie to also collect their opinions and recommendations. The CEO of Ars Occitanie gave this opinion about the Ars to the Prefect of Gard this Friday night,” specifies the agency that adds that “will express the time to spend its decision.”
For several months, the AGRIFOOD nest of the Swiss Giant of the Agrifood nest has been the subject of a controversy over its use, in the past, the treatment of the disinfection of its waters, not dangerous but prohibited for natural mineral waters.
A senatorial research commission, created in November, directed one hundred hearings for four months to shed light on the practices of bottled water industrialists. Your report will be presented on May 19.
With respect to the Vergèze factory, the repression of fraud (DGCCRF) seized justice under article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (which establishes that any administration that has knowledge of the practices that can be a crime or crime is required to inform the prosecutor), confirmed that AFP the Prosecutor of Paris, to what judicial information had been opened.
Source: BFM TV
