Sale of natural mineral water
13.—(1) A person must not sell water which is bottled and labelled “natural mineral water” unless that water is natural mineral water recognised in accordance with regulation 4(2).
(2) A person must not sell bottled natural mineral water if it—
(a)has been extracted from a spring which is exploited in contravention of regulation 8;
(b)has been subjected to any treatment or addition in contravention of regulation 9;
(c)is bottled in contravention of regulation 10;
(d)is labelled in contravention of regulation 11; or
(e)is advertised in contravention of regulation 12.
(3) A person must not sell bottled natural mineral water—
(a)which contains—
(i)parasites or pathogenic micro-organisms;
(ii)Escherichia coli or other coliforms and faecal streptococci in any 250ml sample examined;
(iii)sporulated sulphite-reducing anaerobes in any 50ml sample examined; or
(iv)Pseudomonas aeruginosa in any 250 ml sample examined;
(b)where the total colony count of the water at the source from which that water was taken does not comply with paragraph 7 of Schedule 4;
(c)where the revivable total colony count of that water is in excess of that which would result from the normal increase in the bacterial count which it had at source; or
(d)where that water contains any organoleptic defect.
(4) A person must not sell natural mineral water from the same spring under more than one trade description.