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05/06/13 1:58 PM
It appears that EXPU's water has become contaminated. They may explain the former owner's illness and the abrupt shutdown of operations.
It appears that EXPU's water has become contaminated. They may explain the former owner's illness and the abrupt shutdown of operations.
05/06/13 2:06 PM
As such, especially with natural Spring waters, plate count is constantly varying inside a product bottle. It is unlikely that every single bacterium is destroyed in the disinfection process. Remember, you are disinfecting the water, not sterilizing the water and there is a huge difference. Inevitably, these bacteria (which are hopefully of the non-invasive heterotrophic types instead of Coliform species) and other microbes begin to proliferate and the plate count goes up. As the microbes die off, the SPC goes down, and so on and so on forming a sine wave shaped graph. Of main importance is that no Coliform (E. coli more specifically) bacteria are detected, which is where the FDA would have a problem. I hope some of this helps. So, it is a requirement that both finished product and sources should be tested weekly for total Coliform and SPC/HPC, but there is no real remediation or necessary treatment for just plate count as it is a non-enforceable guideline value.
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