“In February 1990 the leading bottled water brand on the planet, Perrier, was discovered to have excessive levels of benzene…. The contamination was discovered not by the FDA but by the Environmental Health Department in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. “The Department was using Perrier as its standard for testing other waters…. When [lab workers] began […]
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Perrier brought down by Mecklenburg health lab
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged benzene, bottled and sold, fda, mecklenburg nc environmental health dept, perrier water, peter h gleick on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
