1. (a) Water satisfactory without treatment.

   1. (1) For whole fish handling operations:

      1. (A) Not subject to contamination with human fecal discharges.
      2. (B) Maximum of 7 E. coli organisms per cc.
      3. (C) Bacterial standard may be exceeded in not more than 20 percent of the samples.

   2. (2) For cut fish handling operations:

      1. (A) Not subject to contamination with human fecal discharges.
      2. (B) Maximum of 7 E. coli organisms per cc.
      3. (C) Bacterial standard may be exceeded in not more than 5 percent of the samples.

2. (b) Waters satisfactory after treatment:

   1. (1) For whole fish handling operations:

      1. (A) Not subject to gross contamination with human fecal discharges before treatment.
      2. (B) Maximum of 3 E. coli organisms per cc. after treatment.
      3. (C) Bacterial standard may be exceeded in not more than 20 percent of the samples.

   2. (2) For cut fish handling operations:

      1. (A) Not subject to gross contamination with human fecal discharges before treatment.
      2. (B) Maximum of 3 E. coli organisms per cc. after treatment.
      3. (C) Bacterial standard may be exceeded in not more than 5 percent of the samples.

      4. (D) The treatment shall include filtration or the equivalent as one of the steps of the treatment process.

         Samples for bacteriological analysis shall be analyzed by an approved method set forth in the latest edition of the APHA manual entitled “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage.” Those methods shall be employed which give the most specific reliable means of measuring organisms having their origin in the intestines of man and other warm-blooded animals.

Waters used in fish canning operations within canneries shall conform to the following standards: