The operator shall ensure that all stages of the production and distribution of natural mineral water under his responsibility comply with hygiene rules. He applies permanent hazard analysis and critical control point procedures based on the following principles:
1° Identify any hazard that needs to be prevented, eliminated or reduced to an acceptable level;
2° Identify the critical points at which monitoring is essential to prevent or eliminate a hazard or to reduce it to an acceptable level;
3° Establish, at the critical control points, the limits which differentiate acceptability from unacceptability for the prevention, elimination or reduction of the hazards identified;
4° Establish and apply effective monitoring procedures for critical control points;
5° Establish corrective actions to be implemented when monitoring reveals that a critical control point is not under control;
6° Establish procedures to be carried out periodically to check the effectiveness of the measures mentioned in 1° to 5°;
7° Establish documents and records adapted to the nature and size of the operation to prove the effective application of the measures mentioned in 1° to 6°.
The operator shall adapt the procedure following each modification to the product, the process or one of the stages of production.