The complaint, which seeks class-action status, claims Poland Spring parent company Nestle Waters North America is actually selling water that doesn’t meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration definition of spring water.
According to its website, Poland Spring water is collected “before it emerges at the surface” as a spring.
The FDA classifies spring water as “derived from an underground formation from which water flows naturally to the surface of the earth”. A class-action lawsuit filed earlier this week in a federal court in CT alleges that Poland Spring Water is not actually “100 percent natural spring water” from Maine. | More…
