Your Water Bottle Could Be Poisoning You

A new study led by a nonprofit journalism group found that more than 90 percent of several top brands of bottled water were contaminated with tiny pieces of plastic – particles that can create lingering health problems for people. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Peter Mougey discuss this.

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A new study led by a nonprofit journalism group found that more than 90% of several top brands of bottled water were hugely contaminated with these tiny pieces of plastic particles that can create lingering health problems for people. So, no surprises, I looked at this story, I said, without even reading I said, "Let me guess, Nestle is involved." Yeah, well here's the point, what it is is little strips of plastic that you can't even see. They do these tests with the process of a dye, and when you use the dye, you put it under a special light, all of a sudden you do a count-

Lights up.

You do a particle count and the entire bottle is filled with these little pieces of plastic that move through your system, and biologically it becomes part of your system, and some people are able to deal with that, then others aren't. You have people with Crohn's disease, you have people with irritable bowel syndrome and they have all types of gastrointestinal problems, they can't deal with this quite as well. So, here's what I found incredible, Nestle, when the tested Nestle's Pure Life, they did the test-

The name kind of jumps out at you, Pure Life, thank you Nestle.

Yeah, the name of it is Nestle's Pure Life, well let me tell you what, Nestle's Pure Life had 10,390 particle per liter of plastic shards, or pieces of plastic in their drink.

To put that in perspective, San Pelegrino was in the opposite end of the spectrum.

Who was it?

San Pelegrino.

Okay, Italian company.

Yeah, with 74. Not 7400, 74, and that Nestle had 10,000 and some change. That puts it all in perspective.

Okay, so you need to know this. You need know Nestle Pure Life, if you want a lot of plastic in your system, and if your system will handle it. The problem is if you have GI tract problems, this really isn't a good thing.

You could drink the water out of the tap.

Of course.

So, you could drink the water out of the tap and you think, "You know what? I'm going to take care of my family. I'm going to drink more pure water, I'm going to get something that's nice and clean. There's going to be no contaminants in it." And here you are feeding your kids or your loved ones, you're feeding them a bottle of water, Pure Life, with 10,000 different particulates in it.

10,390 particles of plastic.

The name Pure Life, and you've spent money on it when you could've gotten it for free.

You want it because it's going to be better for you, right?

That's infuriating to me.

Okay, here's the real stinger here. Okay, so Nestle finds out that the independent testing took place and that they found 10,390 shreds, or little particles of plastic in this drinking water called Nestle Pure Life. Now, Nestle says, "Okay, we're going to do our own study." I can't make it up. What does Nestle say?

That they had no problems, it was biological pieces.

It was zero. It was zero, they said, "We have zero." In other words it was 10,000 versus zero. We see this all the time practicing law, because right now I'm handling the Montsano RoundUp case and there's cases of cancer all over the world. I mean the cases of cancer, leukemia, blood cancers of all kinds, neurological issues, birth defects.

You've got a name for the people that get hired by the industry.

Biostitutes, yeah. They go out and hire biostitutes, and the biostitute is somebody you can hire at a university-

And they'll say anything for you.

Yeah, you pay them enough money, "Oh no-"

"Zero particulates in Nestle Pure Life."

Yeah, "RoundUp doesn't cause cancer." Or, "No, we looked at this and there are zero particulates, Nestle is a clean company."

After the scientists that had zero interest in the outcome says there's 10,000.

Listen to this, Nestle has 10,390 plastic particles in their drinking water, per liter. Now, the average per liter is, take a guess, right at 300. If you take all of them, and as you point out, Pelegrino was 74.

74. And we did a story a while ago that Nestle was the one that was stealing the water out of the California-

Stealing water.

So they're getting the water for free and they can't even make sure it's clean.

Well, tell them that story, people-

That was the water, they had some lease that they were extracting water out of one of the national fjords.