AQUACERT WQSMS Asia Committee 0.1e - Natural Mineral Water at the source (including water catchment) certification

• Audited organism

• Certification audit conducted on (begining date)

  Date

• Certification audit conducted on (end date)

  Date

• Type of audit

  Initial

  Follow-up 1

  Follow-up 2

  Renewal

• Prepared by

• Signature

  Sign
• Location of the audited site
  Address

• Audit report controlled by technical direction of AES Certification

Certification scope

• Certification scope

• Standard used

  Select AQUACERT WQSMS Asia Committee 0.1e Bottled Natural Mineral Water AQUACERT NMW Well certification AQUACERT WQSMS Asia Committee 0.1e Bottled Spring Water

  • AQUACERT WQSMS Asia Committee 0.1e Bottled Natural Mineral Water
  • AQUACERT NMW Well certification
  • AQUACERT WQSMS Asia Committee 0.1e Bottled Spring Water

Other information

Confidentiality

• The contents of this report, as well as all the notes taken during this audit are treated in a strictly confidential manner and will not be disclosed to any other third party without the prior written consent of the client, except to the competent accreditation authorities when they require it.

Notes

• This report describes the findings to be corrected before presentation to the certification decision for it to be granted or for it to continue. Comments to highlight strengths as well as sources of improvement are also mentioned in this report. This report could be modified by A.E.S.Certification following activities carried out after this audit (verification or technical review). If this were to happen, the report would be revised and distributed again, with explanations.

Communication of the report

• This report will be communicated:
  At the company, in electronic form
  to A.E.S.Certification
  To the Impartiality and Certification Committee of A.E.S.Certification
  
  An electronic copy will be kept in the A.E.S Customer database. Certification.

General

• This audit was carried out, according to the established audit program, to assess the compliance of the management system with the requirements of the applicable standard.
  
  The actions implemented following the nonconformities and observations identified during the previous audit were assessed and their actual implementation was verified.
  
  They were all closed by the Audit Manager.
  The findings are reported below in the report.

• The Chief Audit Executive confirmed with the auditees at the closing meeting that the information in the list of findings is based on real and verified facts.

Highlights

• Main strengths identified during the audit

• Main weaknesses identified during the audit

• Audit plan

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Definition of the certified product "Natural Mineral Water"

• Natural mineral water originating in an underground water table or deposit and emerging from a spring tapped at one or more natural or bore exits

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Natural mineral water can be clearly distinguished from ordinary drinking water by its nature, which is characterised by its mineral content (and constant level of these mineral), trace elements or other constituents and, where appropriate, by certain effects.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Number of water tests considered to answer

• Is the variations' amplitude for each parameter less than 10% ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Which parameter(s) is (are) concerned?

• Natural mineral water can be clearly distinguished from ordinary drinking water by its original purity.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Requirements for the Water Validation report (geological, hydrological, physical, chemical and physico-chemical, microbiological)

• Did you validate your hydrogeological report with Aquacert International services ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• *the exact site of the catchment with indication of its altitude, on a map with a scale of not more than 1:1 000; *a detailed geological report on the origin and nature of the terrain; *the stratigraphy of the hydrogeological layer; *a description of the catchment operations; *the demarcation of the area or details of other measures protecting the spring against pollution.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Based on a 12 month hydrogeologic study * the rate of flow of the spring; * the temperature of the water at source and the ambient temperature; * the relationship between the nature of the terrain and the nature and type of minerals in the water; * the dry residues at 180 °C and 260 °C; * the electrical conductivity or resistivity, with the measurement temperature having to be specified; * the hydrogen ion concentration (pH); * the anions and cations; * the non-ionised elements; * the trace elements; * the radio-actinological properties at source; * where appropriate, the relative isotope levels of the constituent elements of water, oxygen (16O — 18O) and hydrogen (protium, deuterium, tritium); * the toxicity of certain constituent elements of the water, taking account of the limits laid down for each of them.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Based on a 12 month study (with monthly analysis), these analyses shall include: * a demonstration of the absence of parasites and pathogenic micro-organisms; * a quantitative determination of the revivable colony count indicative of faecal contamination: * absence of Escherichia coli and other coliforms in 250 ml at 37 °C and 44,5 °C; * absence of faecal streptococci in 250 ml; * absence of sporulated sulphite-reducing anaerobes in 50 ml; * absence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in 250 ml; * determination of the revivable total colony count per ml of water: at 20 to 22 °C in 72 hours on agar-agar or an agar-gelatine mixture; at 37 °C in 24 hours on agar-agar.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Please upload the hydrogeological studies compliance report

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Requirements for clinical and pharmacological analyses

• Did you validate your clinical and pharmacological report with Aquacert International services ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Please upload your clinical and pharmacological report

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• If the organization decide to communicate on health benefits then it shall provide a relavant study with following requirements : * The analyses, which shall be carried out in accordance with scientifically recognised methods, shall be suited to the particular characteristics of the natural mineral water and its effects on the human organism, such as diuresis, gastric and intestinal functions, compensation for mineral deficiencies. * The establishment of the consistency and concordance of a substantial number of clinical observations may, if appropriate, take the place of the analyses referred to in the paragraph above. Clinical analyses may, in appropriate cases, take the place of the analyses referred to to in the paragraph above provided that the consistency and concordance of a substantial number of observations enable the same results to be obtained.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Legal permission

• Exploitation of a natural mineral water spring shall be subject to permission from the responsible authority of the country where the water has been extracted.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Conception

• The catchment, pipes and reservoirs shall be of materials suitable for water and so built as to prevent any chemical, physico-chemical or microbiological alteration of the water;

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Pipes with stagnation or reduced hydraulicity shall be avoided at conception step.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

End of construction tests

• From the end of construction of the drilling/source/well the organization shall organize tests, including at least :

• Pumping in stages with a physico-chemical physico-chemical monitoring including major anions and cations (and pathogenic bacteria) - (Pumping test of 72h minimum with 1 analysis every 24h)

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Long-term pumping (1 month) with physico-chemical monitoring including major anions and cations (and pathogenic bacteria)

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Physico-chemical logging (T°, conductivity, O2 etc.) - (FR - diagraphie pysico-chimique)

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Production logging - (FR - diagraphie de production)

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• CBL measurement (Cement Bond Log)

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Video inspection

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Management of natural resources

• The organization shall have in place a real time monitoring of the more important parameters, including : a) Flow b) Pressure (for artesian well) or water level c) Temperature d) Conductivity The organization shall produce an annual report about quantitative and qualitative situation of the ressource

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Environmental risks

• The organization shall determine the outer protection zone of the drilling/source/well and the activities within this zone shall be controled. (Map of the infiltration zone at 1/25000 minimum scale)

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Water Defense

• The organization shall have a water defense plan specifying the mitigation measures covering the water ressource and the drilling/source/well. The plan shall include at least : - close protection zone of a drilling/source/well protected by a fence at least 2 m high - immediate protection zone of a drilling/source/well shall be a locked building with intruder alarm system

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Storage

• No contaminants (eg. chemical products) shall be stored in the immediate vicinity of the drilling/source/well.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Pest prevention

• The organization shall prevent pest invasion by securing access to water.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Maintenance operations

• The organization shall have procedures to operate maintenance operations safely. Every device or tool introduced in the drilling/source/well shall be disinfected previously.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Water sampling

• The organization shall install a disinfectable sampling tap (flame). A sampling protocol shall be documented.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Water flow maintaining

• The organization shall remove or manage eventual pipes with stagnation or reduced hydraulicity.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• The drilling/source/well should have a (limited) permanent outflow.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Verification of Water Safety control measures

• The organization shall periodically verify the implementation and efficiency of these water safety control measures.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

• Video inspection should be done every 5 years.

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

Logo use

• The organization shall refer to the document "rules for use the logo of Aquacert International certification" If the organization choose to communicate about its Aquacert International certification on its website, it shall integrate a link to www.aquacert-certification.com

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

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• Is the water compliant to quality limits?

  Select Non applicable Compliant Non compliant (Major) Non compliant (Minor) Follow-up needed Exemption accepted More information needed - please provide documents

  • Non applicable
  • Compliant
  • Non compliant (Major)
  • Non compliant (Minor)
  • Follow-up needed
  • Exemption accepted
  • More information needed - please provide documents

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