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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".12" citation="COMAR 10.15.11.12" title_num="10" subtitle_num="15" chapter_num="11" heading="Unit Processing Operations — Water Treatment.">
  <text>The person-in-charge shall ensure that:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Unless a waiver of filtration and disinfection is granted by the Department in accordance with Health-General Article, §21-336.1(b), Annotated Code of Maryland, and this chapter, finished product water has undergone:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Ozonation, exposure to ultraviolet light, or an equivalent disinfection process approved by the Department; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Filtration or other treatment that is necessary for the water to comply with the standards in Regulation .06 of this chapter;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A drinking water treatment:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Is effective in providing the required or intended result;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Is controlled;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Is monitored; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Uses chemicals, materials, and methods that do not impart substances to the water in a concentration that is toxic, harmful, or deleterious; and</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>If filtration or disinfection of water is used to treat product water, the filtration or disinfection system is:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Proven through a review of scientific study to reduce the target microorganisms to an acceptable level;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Approved by the Department;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Controlled;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Monitored; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Interlocked with the bottling system so that a failure in the filtration or disinfection system inactivates the bottling system and water is prevented from being bottled.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>