The SANBWA “Guidelines and Standards for Bottling Lines” Edition 3 is available a cost of R800.00 (excl. VAT and Postage). This is the first document of its nature for the South African National Bottled Water Industry, and a good handbook for the new bottler of natural mineral water. This also outlines all SANBWA’s technical and processing requirements for membership.

If you wish to order SANBWA’s “Guidelines and Standards for Bottling Lines” you can do this via telephone, fax or email. Please provide your name, telephone and fax numbers as well as postal address where you would like the manual posted to.

Tel: +27 11 884 5916
Fax: +27 11 884 5566
Email: sanbwa_cg@worldonline.co.za or click here to complete our form.

The following topics are covered in the Guidelines manual:

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgements
Background about SANBWA
Objectives of this standard
Benefits of this standard
Benchmarking with other standards

SCOPE AND TERMINOLOGY
Scope of standard
Classification of water
Definitions and Terminology
Abbreviations

GENERAL REGULATIONS
Ownership and scope
Administration and certification
Language
Membership
Membership responsibilities
Access & collaboration
Unannounced audits
Compliance area
Corrective actions
Certification
Appeals
Confidentiality
Disclaimer

STANDARD REQUIREMENTS
Management responsibility
Quality management system
Hazard analysis of critical control po9ints
Resource manage3ment
Control operations
Environmental stewardship

GUIDANCE NOTES TO THE STANDARD
Management responsibility
Policies and objectives
Responsibilities, resource and communication
Water supply management

SPECIFICATIONS
Requirements and tests for source water
Specification for natural source and final packaged water
Specification and guidelines of microbiological test methods
Requirements for labelling
Packaging specification and guidelines for plastic packaging

APPENDICES
Example of a food safety and quality policy
Example of a hazard analysis work sheet
Example of a risk assessment procedure
Example of a decision tree
Process flow diagram: Prepared water
Process flow diagram: Water from Subterranean Origin.

  Our Guidelines and Standards for Natural Water
and Waters Defined by origin is available for purchase

The new Guidelines and Standards for Prepared
Water is also be available for sale.