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 dont 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 waterRaw water (Periodically tested ) Reverse osmosis Raw water storage (may be chlorinated 3mg/L .22 filter Sand filter cum Charcoal filter (removal of odour/chlorine) UV sterilization Ozonisation (.2-.4 ppm)ccp

Pre filter (10 & 5

micron
Bottle rinsing/filling capping

Date /batch coding

Warehousing/distribution

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 1 2 3 Normal Drinking Water Packaged Drinking Water Packaged Natural Mineral Water Testing Method IS: 10500:1991 IS: 14543:2004 IS: 13428:2005

INDIVIDUAL CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF DRINKING WATER No. Test Parameters 1. Colour, true colour units, Testing Method 3025 (Part 4)

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

Odour-2 hazen units Taste Turbidity, NTU-2 NTU units Total dissolved solids mg/1, pH Barium (as Ba) mg/l Copper (as Cu), mg/l Iron (as Fe) mg/l Manganese (as Mn), mg/l Nitrate (as NO3 ), mg/l Nitrite (as NO2 ), mg/l Fluoride (as F), mg/l Zinc (as Zn), mg/l Silver (as Ag), mg/l Aluminium (as Al), mg/l Chloride (as Cl), mg/l Selenium (as Se), mg/l Sulphate (as SO4 ), mg/l Alkalinity (as HCO3), mg/l Calcium (as Ca), mg/l Magnesium (as Mg), mg/l Sodium (as Na), mg/l Residual free chlorine, mg/l Phenolic compounds (as C6H5OH), mg/l

3025 (Part 5) 3025 (Part 8) 3025 (Part 10) 3025 (Part 16) 3025 (Part 11) DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 IS 3025 (Part 34) IS 3025 (Part 34) Clause 23 of IS 3025 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 IS 3025 (Part 32) DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 IS 3025 (Part 24) IS 3025 (Part 23) DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 IS 3025 (Part 26)/ APHA IS3025 (Part 43)/ APHA

26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41.

Mineral oil, mg/l Anionic surface active agents (as MBAS), mgl Sulphide (as H2S), mg/l Antimony (as Sb), mg/l Borates (as B), mg/l Mercury (as Hg) mg/l Cadmium (as Cd) mg/l Arsenic (as As) mg/l Cyanide (as CN) mg/l Lead (as Pb) mg/1 Chromium (as Cr) mg/1 Nickel (as Ni) mg/1 Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) (mix.of 8 PCB) Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (mix of 16 PAH) Pesticides Pesticides, PAHs, PCBs combined

APHA 5520 (By FTIR Method) Annex K of IS 13428 IS 3025 (Part 29) DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 IS 3025 (Part 27) DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 DIN EN ISO 11885April 1998 USEPA /APHA 6431 APHA 6440 USEPA /AOAC Methods USEPA /APHA 6431 APHA 6440 USEPA /AOAC Methods

36 Staphylococcus aureus/100 ml

IS 5887

ABSENT Sulphite reducing anaerobes 2005 ABSENT

37

Annex C of IS 13428:

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Annex D of IS 13428:2005 ABSENT

38 39

Aerobic Microbial Count

IS 5402:2002 IS 5403: 1999 IS 5887 (Part- 7):

40 Yeast & Mould count 41 Shigella

1999
42 Salmonella

ABSENT IS 15187: 2002

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

43

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 dont 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-