The document discusses bottled water, including its definition, types, sources, packaging, production process, quality testing methods, health hazards, and quality standards. It provides details on the various treatment methods used during production, such as ozonation, UV radiation, distillation, and reverse osmosis. It also discusses common microbiological quality tests and limits for bottled water.

1. Bottled water Hinnawala, S.M Disarathne, J.M.D.B Jayawardene, M.M.D.M

3. (http://www.suite101`.com/content/the cost of bottled water.) What is bottled water? ( http://www.suite101`.com/content/the cost of bottled water.) Bottled water can be defined as any potable water intended for human consumption.

6. Source: (Manual of PNWS-AWWA 2008 Annual Conference Bottled Water: Tapping the Trends)

8. Major Suppliers and Marketing Approaches (http://www.google.com/image/bottled water )

11. Water bottling plant Starting Material Conway Belts Making Bottles Filling Quality controller Storage Sealing Labeling

13. Ozonation - water is disinfected using ozone, which kills most microbes ( Http://www.nsf.org )

21. m-ColiBlue24® Method Mix the broth by inverting the ampoules Pour the contents evenly over the absorbent pad in a Petri dish Passes the water sample through a membrane filter Transfer the filter to the absorbent pad with slight rolling motion Replace the Petri dish lid Invert the Petri dish and incubate at 35 ± 0.5 °C for 24 hours Red colonies = Total coliforms Blue colonies = Fecal coliforms

23. Sri lanka Quality Standards for bottled water. SLS 1021:1994 & SLS 1211:2001 are hygienic practices for collecting and processing bottled water. SLS 894:2003 & SLS 1038:2003 are specifications for bottled drinking water.

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