Evian Natural Spring Water, 750 mL glass

1. Source 20% of the rating 5 of 5

   Cachat spring named, and the 2025 report includes NSF’s full test report with lab, sampling date and reporting limits.

2. Independent testing 35% of the rating 4 of 5

   No PFAS in 14 FDA samples, and TFA not detected or at the detection limit in two tests. Arsenic and microplastics in glass have no independent result for this bottle.

3. Packaging 25% of the rating 4 of 5

   Glass, with a polyethylene cap liner in a 2021 test of a limited-edition bottle. Cap paint can shed microplastics.

4. Trust 10% of the rating 4 of 5

   No recalls or Prop 65 notices for the water. A 2022 “carbon neutral” labeling suit was dismissed in 2025.

5. Value 10% of the rating 3 of 5

   About $4.24 a liter at one grocer, above Mountain Valley’s $2.83, and a strong test record is the reason.

The rating, 4.1 of 5, is the weighted average of these scores. See how we rank bottled water and our standard.

• H-E-B (opens in a new tab) approx. $3.18 for one 750 mL glass bottle. Price shown for the Victoria, Texas store on 2026-10-23, about $4.24 a liter; the page calls it a 750 mL glass bottle. H-E-B is a regional chain and says prices may vary between in-store, curbside and delivery.
• Amazon (opens in a new tab) approx. $40 for 6 x 750 mL glass (about $6.67 a bottle). Sold and shipped by Oasis Snacks, a third-party seller, not the maker.

Prices as we saw them on October 23, 2026. They change often. These links carry no tracking code and earn us nothing.

1. Natural spring water

• Independent FDA laboratory survey (EPA method 537.1) April 2025

  Tested 14 Evian samples bought at US retail for 18 PFAS. None was detected above the reporting limits of 0.23 to 0.32 ng/L. TFA is not in the panel. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

• Paid certification NSF International (annual inspection and test, paid by the maker) February 2025

  Tested Line 4 still water, sampled 30 January 2025, to FDA’s bottled water rule: 18 PFAS not detected at 2 ng/L, arsenic not detected, nitrate 0.88 mg/L as N, uranium 0.002 mg/L, lead not detected, result PASS. The PFAS work (EPA 537.1) was done by a subcontract lab, Enthalpy. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

• Independent Consumer Reports September 2020

  Tested 35 non-carbonated waters for 30 PFAS and four metals. Only Tourmaline Spring and Deer Park topped 1 ppt of total PFAS. Evian is in the lower-PFAS and lower-metal group and is not marked as having no detectable PFAS. No per-brand value is published. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

• Independent UFC-Que Choisir and Générations Futures, as reported by L’Essentiel de l’Éco March 2026

  Analyzed 32 waters sold in France for TFA. Evian was one of eleven with no detectable TFA. San Pellegrino had 100 ng/L. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

• Independent Swiss broadcaster RTS, as reported by Le News January 2025

  Had 13 bottled waters sold in Switzerland tested for TFA. Ten of the 13 had detectable TFA, Evian among them at 0.1 µg/L, the test’s detection limit. San Pellegrino had 0.3 µg/L and the highest was 0.8 µg/L. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

• Independent Defend Our Health and the Ecology Center, as reported by Mamavation July 2021

  Tested the cap liners of about 300 glass-bottled drinks for phthalates and PVC. Evian Limited Edition Water 750 mL was in the clean group, with mostly polyethylene liners. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Does Evian contain PFAS?

None that FDA’s or NSF’s labs could find. FDA found none of 18 in 14 samples, and NSF, paid by the maker, found none at 2 ng/L. TFA, a very short PFAS, was not detected in a 2026 French test and was at the detection limit (0.1 µg/L) in a Swiss one. Neither is in FDA’s panel, and no one has tested the US glass bottle for TFA.

Is the water full of microplastics, even in glass?

Probably some. ANSES found (opens in a new tab) about 4.5 plastic particles a liter in glass-bottled water, likely from cap paint. A 2018 study (opens in a new tab) of plastic Evian bottles found 58 and 197 particles a liter in two lots. Nobody has published a count for this glass bottle.

Was the “carbon neutral” label a lie?

A 2022 class action, Dorris v. Danone Waters of America, said so. The court cut it back in January 2024 and dismissed the rest in November 2024, and it was dismissed with prejudice on 14 April 2025 (opens in a new tab) after no new complaint was filed. No finding was made on the label.

Has Evian had pesticide traces?

In 2020 researchers at the Swiss institute Eawag reported 6 ng/L of chlorothalonil, a fungicide banned in the EU since 2019, in Evian, against a 100 ng/L legal limit (Le News (opens in a new tab), citing SonntagsZeitung). NSF’s 2025 panel for the maker does not list chlorothalonil, and we found no later test for it.

Is the glass bottle really what you will get?

Evian sells far more water in plastic, and the glass bottle has patchy availability. We saw it at one grocery chain for $3.18 and at resellers for twice that. Check that the bottle in your hand is glass before you rely on this page.

• FDA’s 2023 to 2024 survey tested 14 Evian samples bought at US retail and imported from France. None had any of the 18 PFAS FDA tested for above its 0.23 to 0.32 ng/L reporting limits. It is the largest independent sample of any water in this group.
• The maker’s 2025 report includes NSF’s full test report (sampled 30 January 2025, final report 20 February 2025, tested to FDA’s bottled water rule, 21 CFR 165.110). It lists 18 PFAS as not detected at 2 ng/L, arsenic not detected, nitrate at 0.88 mg/L as N against 10, uranium at 0.002 mg/L against 0.03, and lead, glyphosate and phthalates not detected.
• Two European tests of TFA, a very short PFAS that FDA and NSF did not measure, found none detectable in France (March 2026) and 0.1 µg/L, the detection limit, in Switzerland (January 2025). That is a trace, not zero. S.Pellegrino came out at 100 ng/L in the French test and 0.3 µg/L (300 ng/L) in the Swiss one.
• The source is named, and the label gives minerals: calcium 80, magnesium 26 and bicarbonate 360 mg/L, pH 7.2. Mamavation’s glass-bottle cap study found no PVC or phthalates in the liner of a 750 mL Evian limited-edition glass bottle.

• The glass pack has no maker price and a patchy market. H-E-B’s Victoria, Texas store showed $3.18 for one bottle on 22 October 2026, about $4.24 a liter. Online we saw only third-party resellers: about $6.67 a bottle on Amazon (6 for $40).
• The NSF samples came from filling lines named “Line 4” (still) and “Line R” (sparkling). The report does not say which package they were filled into, so we cannot tie them to the glass bottle, and the report’s cover letter mentions the quality of its plastic bottles. TFA is in neither NSF’s panel nor FDA’s.
• The NSF report was commissioned by the maker. Consumer Reports’ 2020 test lists Evian among its lower-PFAS waters without marking it PFAS-free, and publishes no per-brand value.
• Glass is not plastic-free. A 2025 study by France’s food-safety agency (ANSES) found 4.5 plastic particles per liter in water bottled in glass, against 1.6 in plastic bottles and cartons, and says they probably came from the paint on metal caps. ANSES calls the water counts relatively low whatever the container and cannot say what they mean for health.

1. evian 750 mL glass bottled water, US product page. Maker’s page. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
2. evian water quality reports (US). Maker’s page. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
3. evian Annual Water Quality Report 2025 (PDF), with NSF test report. Test report. NSF test report dated 20 February 2025, commissioned by the maker. Lines 4 (still) and R (sparkling); PFAS by EPA 537.1 at a subcontract lab. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
4. FDA: Analytical Results for FY23-FY24 PFAS in Bottled Water Assignment. Test report. Results by sample ID, EPA method 537.1; the file is dated March 2025 and FDA announced the results on 14 April 2025. Brands are in the separate sample brand information file. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
5. FDA: FY23-FY24 PFAS in Bottled Water Assignment Sample Brand Information. Test report. Maps sample IDs to brands. It lists 14 Evian samples, imported from France. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
6. Consumer Reports: What’s Really in Your Bottled Water? (24 September 2020). Test report. Evian is among the 35 non-carbonated waters tested. Only Tourmaline Spring and Deer Park exceeded 1 ppt, and no per-brand value is published for the rest. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
7. L’Essentiel de l’Éco: Meilleure eau en bouteille en 2026 (29 May 2026). Independent source. In French. Secondary report of the March 2026 UFC-Que Choisir and Générations Futures test of 32 waters for TFA. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
8. Le News: 10 out of 13 bottled waters tested in Switzerland fail pollution test (24 January 2025). Independent source. Secondary report of an RTS test for TFA. Ten of 13 waters had detectable TFA, Evian among them at the 0.1 µg/L limit. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
9. Le News: More chlorothalonil found in Evian water than in Lake Zurich (16 July 2020). Independent source. Secondary report of Eawag researchers finding 6 ng/L of chlorothalonil in Evian, under a 100 ng/L limit. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
10. FDA: FDA Shares Testing Results for PFAS in Bottled Water (14 April 2025). Independent source. 197 samples collected at US retail in 2023 and 2024 and analyzed for 18 PFAS. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
11. Mamavation: glass bottle caps tested for phthalates and PVC (July 2021). Test report. Reports the Defend Our Health and Ecology Center cap study of about 300 drinks. The site earns affiliate income. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
12. Mason et al. (2018), Frontiers in Chemistry: synthetic polymer contamination in bottled water (PMID 30255015). Independent source. 259 bottles from 11 brands, nearly all in plastic. Evian plastic lots averaged 197 and 58 particles a liter. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
13. ANSES: the caps of glass bottles contaminate beverages with microplastics (20 June 2025). Independent source. Drinks sold in France. ANSES says it cannot say whether the particle counts pose a health risk. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
14. Dorris v. Danone Waters of America, S.D.N.Y. 7:22-cv-08717 (CourtListener docket). Independent source. Putative class action over the “carbon neutral” label on Evian. Dismissed with prejudice on 14 April 2025. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
15. California Attorney General: Prop 65 60-day notice search. Certifier or regulator listing. Searched by alleged violator on 23 Oct 2026; no notice named Evian. The 17 notices that name Danone concern other products, not water. openFDA lists two 2018 and 2019 yogurt recalls by Danone Waters of America and none for Evian. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

• Mountain Valley Spring Water in glass Sold at a clear price of about $2.83 a liter, with a full 2025 report from its maker. Only a sparkling cousin has had an outside PFAS test.
• A certified home water filter Usually cheaper per liter and lower-waste. See our guide to tap versus bottled water.

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