The Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Amendments to the Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water Regulations 1999

19.  For Table B in Part II of Schedule 3 and the notes attached to it there shall be substituted the following provisions —

“TABLE B

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item	Parameters	Units of Measurement	Maximum Concentration
1.	Arsenic	μg As/l	10
2.	Cadmium	μg Cd/l	5
3.	Cyanide	μg CN/l	50
4.	Chromium	μg Cr/l	50
5.	Mercury	μg Hg/l	1
6.	Nickel	μg Ni/l	20
7.	Selenium	μg Se/l	10
8.	Antimony	μg Sb/l	5
9.	Lead	μg Pb/l	10
10.	Pesticides and related products:
	(a) individual substances	μg/l	0.10 (notes 1 and 2)
	(b) total substances	μg/l	0.50 (notes 1 and 3)
11.	Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	μg/l	0.1 sum of concentrations of specified compounds (note 4)
12.	Bromate	μg BrO3/l	10

Note 1: “Pesticides” means:

• organic insecticides,

• organic herbicides,

• organic fungicides,

• organic nematocides,

• organic acaricides,

• organic algicides,

• organic rodenticides,

• organic slimicides,

related products (inter alia, growth regulators) and their relevant metabolites, degradation and reaction products.

Only those pesticides which are likely to be present in a given water need to be monitored.

Note 2: The maximum concentration applies to each individual pesticide. In the case of aldrin, dieldrin, heptaclor and heptachlor epoxide the maximum concentration is 0.030 μg/l.

Note 3: The maximum concentration for “total substances” refers to the sum of the concentrations of all individual pesticides detected and quantified in the monitoring procedure.

Note 4: The specified compounds are benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, benzo(ghi)perylene, indeno(1,2,3-cd) pyrene.”.