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Without prejudice to paragraphs 1 and 2 and the conditions of exploitation laid down in Annex II, at the marketing stage: the revivable total colony count of a natural mineral water may only be that resulting from the normal increase in the bacterial count which it had at source; the natural mineral water may not contain any organoleptic defects.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-10 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.