Inside, workers wear hairnets, hard hats, goggles, gloves, and earplugs. Ten production lines snake through the space, funneling local spring water into 8-ounce to 2.5-gallon containers; most of the lines run 24/7, each pumping out 500 to 1,200 bottles per minute…
A federal class action lawsuit claims that Nestle is guilty of “colossal fraud perpetrated against American consumers” by selling fake spring water to the public.
Nestle is planning to dramatically increase the amount of groundwater it pumps from under the state of Michigan in conjunction with a $36 million dollar expansion of its Ice Mountain bottling plant. MLive reported that Nestle Waters North America had requested permission to increase pumping from 150 gallons to 400 gallons per minute at one…