>According to them: Avoid Nestle Pure Life. San Pellegrino, Evian, and Dasani are OK.
Naah, water is usually bottled locally, they tested some brands in:
U.S., Kenya, China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico and Thailand
(and called it "global"), but a same brand may - even in the same country - come from a different spring or bottling plant, so you are never "safe" (nor "in danger") because of this or that brand.
Just in case the actual "paper" (actualy only a "report"):
And as a side note/observation, the classification of any plastic particle smaller than 5 millimeters as "microplastics" has been given (and it makes sense) in the context of marine/ocean related sciences:
I don't know about the others but Evian and San Pellegrino each come from one source, respectively situated in Évian-les-Bains, France and San Pellegrino Terme, Italy.
>I don't know about the others but Evian and San Pellegrino each come from one source, respectively situated in Évian-les-Bains, France and San Pellegrino Terme, Italy.
Yes, that applies to San Pellegrino (and most probably Evian also) but San Pellegrino (the company, which is anyway Nestlè) has 6 bottling plants in Italy:
While it is true that San Pellegrino brand water is exclusively coming from San Pellegrino (and as well Acqua Panna comes from Scarperia only and Levissima comes from Cepina Valdisotto only) the other three plants are anyway marked as "Nestlè Vera" (with of course a distincion on the spring, respectively "fonte in Bosco", "fonte Santa Rosalia", "fonte Naturae")[1].
I believe (possibly I am wrong) that in many (non-EU) countries the bottled water is more like a "pure brand" than a "specific spring".
Naah, water is usually bottled locally, they tested some brands in:
U.S., Kenya, China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico and Thailand
(and called it "global"), but a same brand may - even in the same country - come from a different spring or bottling plant, so you are never "safe" (nor "in danger") because of this or that brand.
Just in case the actual "paper" (actualy only a "report"):
https://orbmedia.org/sites/default/files/FinalBottledWaterRe...
And as a side note/observation, the classification of any plastic particle smaller than 5 millimeters as "microplastics" has been given (and it makes sense) in the context of marine/ocean related sciences:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics
it makes (to me) little sense to call "micro" anything that can be seen by the naked eye in the context of impurities in a bottle of water.
5 mm?
Come on, they are nearly the size of marbles we played with as kids ...