Basic sanitary specifications ...

Basic sanitary specifications for bottled water
The product object of this order, must comply with the following specifications:

6.1 Organoleptic and physical
Odor Odorless
Taste Tasteless
Maximum limit
Color 15 Units of true color * on the scale of platinum-cobalt
Turbiedad 5 Units of UTN
* Only that produced by solids dissolved in water.

6.2 Physicochemical
pH 6.5 - 8.5
Maximum Limit mg / l
Total alkalinity 300.00 as CaCO3
Aluminum 0.20
Arsenic 0.05
Barium 0.70
Cadmium 0.005
Cyanides as CN- 0.05
Free residual chlorine after 0.10 minimum contact time of 30 minutes
Chlorides such as Cl- 250.00
Copper 1.00
Total Chromium 0.05
Total hardness as CaCO3 200.00
Phenolic or phenolic compounds 0.001
Iron 0.30
Fluorides as F- 0.70
Manganese 0.05
Mercury 0.001
Nitrates as N 10.00
Nitrites as N 0.05
Ammoniacal nitrogen as N 0.50
Total organic nitrogen as N 0.10
Oxygen consumed in acid medium 2.00
Ozone when packing 0.40
Silver 0.05
Lead 0.02
Dissolved solids total 500.00
Sulfates as SO4 = 250.00
Active substances to methylene blue 0.50
Total trihalomethanes 0.10
Zinc 3.00
 

6.3 Microbiological
Maximum limit
Aerobic mesophilic UFC / ml 100
Total coliforms * NMP / 100 ml not detectable
Total coliforms ** UFC / 100 ml zero
Vibrio cholerae *** Negative
* Most likely number technique.
** Membrane filtration method.
*** Under emergency health situations, the Ministry of Health, without prejudice to the attributions of other Dependencies of the Executive, will establish the cases in which the presence of this biological agent will have to be determined.

6.4 Pesticides
Maximum Limit μg / l
Aldrin and Dieldrin (separated or combined) 0.03
Chlordane (total isomers) 0.30
DDT (Dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane) 1.00
(total of isomers)
Gamma-HCH (lindane) 2.00
Hexachlorobenzene 0.01
Heptachlor and heptachlor epoxide 0.03
Methoxychlor (1,1,1-Trichlor, 2,2, bis 20,00
(p-methoxy-phenyl) ethane)
2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) 30.00