Quality manual for bottled drinking water will be hundreds of pages. It cannot be posted in this forum.However some guideline ,specification and templates can be attached here and you can make your own quality manual.Source of water is very important and has to be tested if it is worth for drinking purpose and bottling operation. All parameters for drinking water quality has to be tested.Normally all bottled water manufacturers don’t have facility to test all parameters .Hence some mandatory tests as per regulatory requirements for that country are tested and all other parameters are tested from outside approved lab.

Important of all is that source of water used should be of drinking water quality as per the regulatory requirements of the country.

Most of prerequisite programmes (PRPS) Like- Daily GHK, Personnel hygiene, GMP, Master Sanitation Schedule-( Daily Sanitation, Weekly sanitation, monthly sanitation , etc),pest control will be similar to other International standards.

Quality control like physical, chemical, instrumental & microbiological standards for raw water and product water can be done as per AOAC,APHA,ISO etc and documented to form Quality manual.

These tests require sophisticated instruments like atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS),Spectrophotometer, and sophisticated microbiological lab. In india some parameters (mandatory) are tested in house while others are tested from approved outside labs (mandatory) as per regulatory requirements.

Apart from these you have to have certificate of analysis of pet bottles & caps used (1,2 & 20 lt bottles etc)e.g.migration test,water potability test etc.).

and also carry out microbiology sampling point (weekly)analysis of water at various points of equipment as per flow chart(e.g after filteration,R.O. etc),environment/air exposure microbiology ,and shelf life product testing, Net content testing, change of filters (cartridges)etc.

Maintaining & Filing of Documents ,Sop,Records of all parameters tested etc.

Flow chart outline for manufacture of bottles packaged drinking water-

I am attaching files for parameters for testing raw water and finished product water as to our regulatory standard.

Drinking Water Analysis

Complete Analysis

No.

Test Parameters Testing Method

1 Normal Drinking Water IS: 10500:1991

2 Packaged Drinking Water IS: 14543:2004

3 Packaged Natural Mineral Water IS: 13428:2005

INDIVIDUAL CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF DRINKING WATER

No.

Test Parameters Testing Method

Raw water (Periodically tested )

Raw water storage (may

be chlorinated 3mg/L )Sand filter cum Charcoal filter (removal of odour/chlorine) Pre filter (10 & 5µ )

micron Reverse osmosis UV sterilization Ozonisation (.2-.4 ppm)ccp Bottle rinsing/filling

capping

Date /batch coding Warehousing/distribution

.22 µ filter

1. Colour, true colour units, 3025 (Part 4)

2. Odour-2 hazen units 3025 (Part 5)

3. Taste 3025 (Part 8)

4. Turbidity, NTU-2 NTU units 3025 (Part 10)

5. Total dissolved solids mg/1, 3025 (Part 16)

6. pH 3025 (Part 11)

7. Barium (as Ba) mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

8. Copper (as Cu), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

9. Iron (as Fe) mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

10. Manganese (as Mn), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

11. Nitrate (as NO3 ), mg/l IS 3025 (Part 34)

12. Nitrite (as NO2 ), mg/l IS 3025 (Part 34)

13. Fluoride (as F), mg/l Clause 23 of IS 3025

14. Zinc (as Zn), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

15. Silver (as Ag), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

16. Aluminium (as Al), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

17. Chloride (as Cl), mg/l IS 3025 (Part 32)

18. Selenium (as Se), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

19. Sulphate (as SO4 ), mg/l IS 3025 (Part 24)

20. Alkalinity (as HCO3), mg/l IS 3025 (Part 23)

21. Calcium (as Ca), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

22. Magnesium (as Mg), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

23. Sodium (as Na), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

24. Residual free chlorine, mg/l IS 3025 (Part 26)/ APHA

25. Phenolic compounds (as C6H5OH), mg/l

IS3025 (Part 43)/ APHA

26. Mineral oil, mg/l APHA 5520 (By FTIR Method)

27. Anionic surface active agents (as MBAS), mgl

Annex K of IS 13428

28. Sulphide (as H2S), mg/l IS 3025 (Part 29)

29. Antimony (as Sb), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

30. Borates (as B), mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

31. Mercury (as Hg) mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

32. Cadmium (as Cd) mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

33. Arsenic (as As) mg/l DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

34. Cyanide (as CN) mg/l IS 3025 (Part 27)

35. Lead (as Pb) mg/1 DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

36. Chromium (as Cr) mg/1 DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

37. Nickel (as Ni) mg/1 DIN EN ISO 11885-April 1998

38. Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) (mix.of 8 PCB)

USEPA /APHA 6431

39. Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (mix of 16 PAH)

APHA 6440

40. Pesticides USEPA /AOAC Methods

41. Pesticides, PAHs, PCBs combined USEPA /APHA 6431

APHA 6440

USEPA /AOAC Methods

36 Staphylococcus aureus/100 ml   IS 5887 ABSENT

37 Sulphite reducing anaerobes Annex C of IS 13428: 2005 ABSENT

38 Pseudomonas aeruginosa Annex D of IS 13428:2005  ABSENT

39 Aerobic Microbial Count IS 5402:2002 

40 Yeast & Mould count IS 5403: 1999

41 Shigella IS 5887 (Part- 7): 1999 ABSENT

42 Salmonella IS 15187: 2002 ABSENT

43 V. cholerae & V. paraholyticus IS 5887 (Part-5): 1976 ABSENT

Hello Mr nagi,

Quality manual for bottled drinking water will be hundreds of pages. It cannot be posted in this forum.However some guideline ,specification and templates can be attached here and you can make your own quality manual.

Source of water is very important and has to be tested if it is worth for drinking purpose and bottling operation. All parameters for drinking water quality has to be tested.

Normally all bottled water manufacturers don’t have facility to test all parameters .Hence some mandatory tests as per regulatory requirements for that country are tested and all other parameters are tested from outside approved lab.

 Important of all is that source of water used should be of drinking water quality as per the regulatory requirements of the country.

 Most of prerequisite programmes (PRPS) Like- Daily GHK, Personnel hygiene, GMP, Master Sanitation Schedule-( Daily Sanitation, Weekly sanitation, monthly sanitation , etc),pest control will be similar to other International standards.

 Quality control like physical, chemical, instrumental & microbiological standards for raw water and product water can be done as per AOAC,APHA,ISO etc and documented to form Quality manual.

 These tests require sophisticated instruments like atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS),Spectrophotometer, and sophisticated microbiological lab.

In india some parameters (mandatory) are tested in house while others are tested from approved outside labs (mandatory) as per regulatory requirements.

 Apart from these you have to have certificate of analysis of pet bottles & caps used (1,2 & 20 lt bottles etc)e.g.migration test,water potability test etc.).

and also carry out microbiology sampling point (weekly)analysis of water at various points of equipment as per flow chart(e.g after filteration,R.O. etc),environment/air exposure microbiology ,and shelf life product testing, Net content testing, change of filters (cartridges)etc.

Maintaining & Filing of Documents ,Sop,Records of all parameters tested etc.

 Flow chart outline for manufacture of bottles packaged drinking water-