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BOTTLED WATER QUALITY REPORT

INTRODUCTION

Your Culligan bottled water meets all federal and state health standards. FDA regulates bottled water as a food product whereas EPA regulates tap water as provided by water utilities. Standards of quality enacted by the FDA for bottled water must be as protective of the public health as EPA’s standards (known as Maximum Contaminant Levels or MCLs) for tap water. Ensuring the safety of the water is our primary objective in providing our product to the consumer. And don't we also want it to be refreshingly pure and essentially tasteless and odorless, like water is supposed to be??

OUR SOURCE FOR OUR WATER PURIFIED DRINKING WATER
Culligan San Antonio's Bottling facility uses City of San Antonio Municipal Water as it's source. City owned wells bring water to surface reservoirs from deep within the Edwards Aquifer. Before distribution the water is chlorinated to ensure bacterial safety. The water in these aquifers begins as rain and runs below the surface until the city pumps it up to storage tanks for distribution. Layers of solid rock provide a mostly impervious (im-passable) protective cover for the aquifer water. This source water is considered safe to drink by the city, which follows Federal Drinking Water Safety Guidelines, including constant monitoring for physical and bacterial contaminants. Culligan tests our source water regularly to verify that it is of extremely high quality. Though generally considered safe to consume, some people desire an even cleaner water for their personal use, for drinking and cooking, and Culligan is able to purify the San Antonio city water to a considerably higher standard with the process described below.

Click here to view the San Antonio Water System Water Quality Report

HOW BOTTLE WATER IS PREPARED
The quality of  bottled water is ensured by a "multi-barrier" approach which may include stages such as source protection and monitoring and treatment such as reverse osmosis, micron filtration and ozonation. Bottled water products labeled as spring water, well water, artesian water and mineral water must come from protected sources which are monitored frequently. Bottled water may also come from treated municipal supplies. IBWA member companies using municipal sources employ processing methods, such as reverse osmosis, carbon filtration, and/or ozonation to remove any chemical and microbiological contaminants, including Cryptosporidium. IBWA members, regardless of their source type, use a variety of practices to ensure the safety and high quality of the products.

Multiple stages of filtration include carbon filtration, micron filtration and particulate filtration to remove sediment and suspended particles. Reverse osmosis, a process that removes nearly all of the salts or minerals in the source water is then used. It works by forcing the water through a semi-permeable membrane (the water passes through but most minerals are rejected).

All of our bottled water products are ozonated. We use ozone instead of chlorine because it leaves no residual and it does not cause taste and odor problems. Ozone is enhanced oxygen which is bubbled through the water just before it goes into a clean, sanitized bottle. Within a few hours after the bottle has been filled and capped, the ozone, or O3, dissipates or converts back to the same form of oxygen that we breathe, O2.

OUR COMPANY’S WATER TESTING
Our company regularly tests for organic chemicals and inorganic chemicals that are regulated by the FDA. As an extra safeguard we also test for unregulated contaminants. No contaminant was detected above FDA’s limits in our testing as demonstrated. There have been no violations of any FDA Standard of Quality.

Culligan Bottle Water Analysis

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