Nestlé May Have to Stop Selling Perrier as Mineral Water Due to Filtering

Nestlé SA may have to stop marketing its French beverage brand Perrier as a mineral water after admitting to using filtering methods illegal for natural mineral waters.

Hydrogeologists commissioned by the French government had issued an “unfavorable opinion” about Perrier’s use of its springs to make “natural mineral waters,” Nestlé Chief Executive Officer Laurent Freixe said in a French Senate hearing Wednesday, which was shown on the TV channel Public Senat. The company is launching an audit of its water filtration practices, he said.