PART 2 Natural mineral water

9 Sale of natural mineral water
1 No person may sell any water bottled in a bottle the marking or labelling of which uses the name “natural mineral water” in or as the name of the water unless that water is natural mineral water.
2 No person may sell any bottled natural mineral water —
(a) which contains—
(i) Parasites or pathogenic micro-organisms,
(ii) Escherichia coli or other coliforms and faecal streptococci in any 250 ml sample examined,
(iii) Sporulated sulphite-reducing anaerobes in any 50 ml 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 bacteria content which it had at source; or
(d) where that water contains any organoleptic defect.
3 No person may sell any bottled natural mineral water—
(a) which has been extracted from a spring which is exploited in contravention of regulation 5;
(b) which has been subjected to any treatment or addition in contravention of regulation 6; or
(c) which is marked or labelled in contravention of regulation 8.
4 No person may sell any natural mineral water from one and the same spring under more than one trade description.