PART 2Natural mineral water

Sale of natural mineral water13

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.