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2. Subject to paragraph 1, sampling at the point of compliance must meet the following requirements:—
(a)a sample for copper, lead or nickel must be taken at the consumer’s tap without prior flushing;
(b)a sample for any such parameter or any other chemical parameter must—
(i)be a random daytime sample of one litre volume; or
(ii)use a fixed stagnation time method that better reflects the national situation, provided that, at the supply zone level, this does not result in fewer cases of non-compliance than using the random daytime method; and
(c)a sample for microbiological parameters at the point of compliance must be taken and handled in accordance with sampling purpose B of European standard EN ISO 19458:2006 entitled “Water quality - Sampling for microbiological analysis (ISO 19458:2006)”(1).
This standard was approved by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) on 1st July 2006. Under reference BS EN ISO 19458, it is published as a UK standard by the British Standards Institution (ISBN 0 580 49136 6).
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