Bottled water brand is being pulled from store shelves after a report found that the products contained arsenic at levels that exceeded federal standards.
from the non-profit Center for Environmental Health found bottles of Peñafiel water, which are imported from Mexico, contained arsenic levels above standards set by the Food and Drug Administration and the state of California.
"Water quality tests of Peñafiel samples conducted by an independent laboratory on behalf of Keurig Dr Pepper detected arsenic at levels that exceeded the FDA's bottled water standards for mineral water of 10 ppb ," the company wrote in the statement. Federal standards set an acceptable limit of 10 parts per billion. Consumer Reports maintains that standard should be lower, at three parts per billion.
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