{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-mineral-water-spring-water-and-bottled-drinking-water-amendment-england-regulations-2003/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-mineral-water-spring-water-and-bottled-drinking-water-amendment-england-regulations-2003/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/666",
  "legislation_title": "The Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-mineral-water-spring-water-and-bottled-drinking-water-amendment-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water Regulations 1999",
  "text": "For Table A in Part II of Schedule 3 (prescribed concentrations or values of spring water and drinking water) and the note attached to it, there shall be substituted the following provisions—\n“\nTABLE A\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nColumn 4\nItem\nParameters\nUnits of Measurement\nConcentration or Value (maximum unless otherwise stated)\nNote 1: The concentration (mg/l) of nitrate divided by 50 added to the concentration (mg/l) of nitrite divided by 3 must not exceed 1.\nNote 2: Excluding tritium, potassium−40, radon and radon decay products.\n1.\nColour\nmg/l Pt/Co scale\n20\n2.\nTurbidity\nNTU\n4\n3.\nOdour\nDilution number\n3 at 25°C\n4.\nTaste\nDilution number\n3 at 25°C\n5.\nSulphate\nmg SO4/l\n250\n6.\nSodium\nmg Na/l\n200\n7.\nNitrate\nmg NO3/l\n50 (note 1)\n8.\nNitrite\nmg NO2/l\n0.5 (note 1)\n9.\nAluminium\nµg Al/l\n200\n10.\nCopper\nmg Cu/l\n2\n11.\nFluoride\nmg F/l\n1.5\n12.\nHydrogen ion concentration\npH units\n6.5 (minimum)\n9.5 (maximum)\n13.\nTritium (for radioactivity)\nBq/l\n100\n14.\nTotal indicative dose\nmSv/year\n0.10 (note 2)\n15.\nManganese\nμg Mn/l\n50\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/666/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:29:07.702038+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}