Health Alert: Potential Contamination in Popular Moroccan Bottled Water Brand

The information was first revealed by the French version of the Hespress website, which did not give the brand name.

According to the site, the Moroccan Federation of Consumer Rights claims that "a water widely marketed on the national market would be contaminated" and that "the patient zero in this case would be the city of Tiznit where several tests carried out by the National Institute of Hygiene in Rabat have confirmed the presence of high levels of microbes".

The level of bacteria present in the water would exceed the authorized standards and can be the cause of serious septicemic and urinary infections in citizens.

The contaminated batches concern everything that was bottled throughout 2019. These are mainly the 0.5l and 1.5l formats. And the most exposed populations at risk are children, the elderly and people with low immunity.

That is why, given the danger posed by the consumption of this water, the Federation denounces what it calls "a complicit silence" of the Ministry of Health and its services, for not having yet removed these contaminated water bottles from the market, which have been circulating for nearly a year.

This is a major public health risk that has been running for a year or so, treated with carelessness that shows how much consumer protection is the least of the concerns of those who are responsible for it, writes the site.