1.The treatment of natural mineral waters and spring waters with activated alumina in order to remove fluoride, hereinafter ‘the fluoride removal treatment’, shall be allowed.
Natural mineral waters and spring waters together are referred to hereinafter as ‘water’.
2.The fluoride removal treatment shall be performed in accordance with the technical requirements as set out in the Annex.
The release of residues into the water as a result of the fluoride removal treatment shall be as low as technically feasible according to the best practices and shall not pose a risk to public health. To ensure this, the operator shall implement and monitor the critical processing steps set in the Annex.
1.The application of a fluoride removal treatment shall be notified to the competent authorities at least three months prior to use.
2.With the notification the operator shall communicate to the competent authorities relevant information, documentation and analytical results on the treatment which show that it complies with the Annex.
The label on water which has been the subject of a fluoride removal treatment shall include, in proximity to the statement of the analytical composition, the indication ‘water subjected to an authorised adsorption technique’.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Products which were placed on the market by 10 August 2010 and which do not comply with Article 4, may continue to be marketed until 10 August 2011.
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Done at Brussels, 9 February 2010.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Signature omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/529), regs. 1, 4(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)