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4. Health safety concept
Water intended for human consumption must comply with the quality limits and references specified in the Public Health Code:
not contain a number or concentration of micro-organisms, parasites or any other substance constituting a potential danger to human health;
comply with the quality limits and references specified in the decrees implementing the Public Health Code.
High-performance analytical methods enable us to detect a number of substances in water whose effects on humans are not yet well understood, leading to a lack of consumer confidence in water quality and a feeling that water pollution in general is on the increase.
This is why the World Health Organization is today advocating new water quality control practices, based on the concept...
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Bibliography
- (1) - UNICEF - The state of the world's children 2000 - (1999) http://www.unicef.org/sowc00
- (2) - RISEBRO (H.), DE FRANCA DORIA (M.), YIP (H.), HUNTER (P.R.) - Intestinal illness...
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Products for the treatment of drinking water – 2 volumes Volume 1: mineral substances – Volume 2: mineral carriers, compounds, organic carriers 1648 p. (2000).
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- Water quality – Sampling – Part 1: Guidelines for the design of sampling programs and techniques, AFNOR - NF EN ISO 5667-1 - 2007
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Regulatory provisions: articles R. 1321-1 to D. 1321-68 and R. 1321-69 to R-1321-97
Law no. 92-3 of January 3, 1992 on water (JORF no. 3 of January 4, 1992)
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