{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-mineral-water-spring-water-and-bottled-drinking-water-amendment-england-regulations-2003/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-mineral-water-spring-water-and-bottled-drinking-water-amendment-england-regulations-2003/regulation-19.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/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water Regulations 1999",
  "text": "For Table B in Part II of Schedule 3 and the notes attached to it, there shall be substituted the following provisions—\n“\nTABLE B\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nColumn 4\nItem\nParameters\nUnits of Measurement\nMaximum Concentration\nNote 1: “Pesticides” means:\norganic insecticides,\norganic herbicides,\norganic fungicides,\norganic nematocides,\norganic acaricides,\norganic algicides,\norganic rodenticides,\norganic slimicides,\nrelated products (inter alia, growth regulators) and their relevant metabolites, degradation and reaction products.\nOnly those pesticides which are likely to be present in a given water need to be monitored.\nNote 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.\nNote 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.\nNote 4: The specified compounds are benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, benzo(ghi)perylene, indeno(1.2,3–cd) pyrene.\n1.\nArsenic\nμg As/l\n10\n2.\nCadmium\nμg Cd/l\n5\n3.\nCyanide\nμg CN/l\n50\n4.\nChromium\nμg Cr/l\n50\n5.\nMercury\nμg Hg/l\n1\n6.\nNickel\nμg Ni/l\n20\n7.\nSelenium\nμg Se/l\n10\n8.\nAntimony\nμg Sb/l\n5\n9.\nLead\nμg Pb/l\n10\n10.\nPesticides and related products:\n(a) individual substances\nμg/l\n0.10 (notes 1 and 2)\n(b) total substances\nμg/l\n0.50 (notes 1 and 3)\n11.\nPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons\nμg/l\n0.1 sum of concentrations of specified compounds (note 4)\n12.\nBromate\nμg BrO3/l\n10\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/19",
    "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."
}