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Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
This external quality assessment scheme is for laboratories in the water testing and clinical microbiology sectors examining hospital tap water.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is particularly suited to laboratories in the water testing and clinical microbiology sectors that examine hospital tap waters.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is for laboratories in the water testing and clinical microbiology sectors examining hospital tap water.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is suitable for laboratories in the water testing and clinical microbiology sectors examining hospital tap water.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme for laboratories in the water testing and clinical microbiology sectors that examine hospital tap waters.
The differences between the 3 types of bottled water, and what bottled water is exempt from the rules.
Report on the quality of all individual supplies of drinking water that exceed 1,000 cubic meters a day or serve more than 5,000 people in England.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
External quality assessment (EQA) of water microbiology.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water for low levels of indicator organisms.
External quality assessment (EQA) scheme suitable for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water, examining for low levels of indicator organisms.
Current and future issues for drinking waters, with a review of current measures to address the challenges.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water, examining for low levels of indicator organisms.
These reports (HPA-RPD-040 and HPA-RPD-041) concern incidents involving radionuclides leading to contamination of the drinking water supply.
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