A video shows an ‘experiment’ which reveals that San Pellegrino contains graphene oxide.
Scientists have said the experiment does not show what is claimed and San Pellegrino manufacturers have previously said their water does not contain graphene oxide.
A video on Instagram and Facebook simulates ‘an experiment’ which claims to have made the “shocking discovery” that there is graphene oxide in a bottle of San Pellegrino sparkling water.
However, graphene oxide is not an ingredient of San Pellegrino sparkling water and this claim was addressed as being false by Nestle, the parent company of San Pellegrino.
We have found earlier versions of this video on X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube dating back to 2022. And we’ve seen numerous claims over the years about graphene oxide being an undisclosed ingredient of products, such as Covid vaccines.
False claims about the ingredients in food and drink risk causing unnecessary alarm to those who see them.
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Graphene oxide is a compound that is made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. It has many uses in industry and also various biomedical applications. Emerging research has suggested that graphene oxide may be useful in removing other contaminants and research is ongoing to determine what other potential uses graphene may have in the water purification industry.
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