{"id":544816,"date":"2026-08-27T02:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/uncategorized\/quality-of-bathing-water-in-france-in-2019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T02:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:49:32","slug":"quality-of-bathing-water-in-france-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/en\/regulatory-watch\/quality-of-bathing-water-in-france-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality of bathing water in France in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each year, the ARS (Regional Health\nAgencies) organise the monitoring of bathing water quality\nat more than 3,330 sites in France.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the 2019 bathing\nseason, they established the classification of bathing waters according to\nthe threshold and mandatory values set by Directive 2006\/7\/EC for the\nparameters <em>Escherichia coli<\/em> and intestinal enterococci. Their presence\nin the water indicates a greater or lesser degree of faecal\ncontamination depending on the concentrations recorded.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For inland waters:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>\n  Parameter\n  <\/td><td>\n  Excellent\n  quality\n  <\/td><td>\n  Good\n  quality\n  <\/td><td>\n  Sufficient\n  quality\n  <\/td><td>\n  Methods\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  Intestinal\n  enterococci (CFU\/100ml)\n  <\/td><td>\n  200\n  <\/td><td>\n  400\n  <\/td><td>\n  330\n  <\/td><td>\n  ISO 7899-1\n  or ISO 7899-2\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  E. coli\n  (CFU\/100ml)\n  <\/td><td>\n  500\n  <\/td><td>\n  1000\n  <\/td><td>\n  900\n  <\/td><td>\n  ISO 9308-3\n  OR 9308-1\n  <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For coastal and transitional waters:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>\n  Parameter\n  <\/td><td>\n  Excellent\n  quality\n  <\/td><td>\n  Good\n  quality\n  <\/td><td>\n  Sufficient\n  quality\n  <\/td><td>\n  Methods\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  Intestinal\n  enterococci (CFU\/100ml)\n  <\/td><td>\n  100\n  <\/td><td>\n  200\n  <\/td><td>\n  185\n  <\/td><td>\n  ISO 7899-1\n  or ISO 7899-2\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  E. coli\n  (CFU\/100ml)\n  <\/td><td>\n  250\n  <\/td><td>\n  500\n  <\/td><td>\n  500\n  <\/td><td>\n  ISO 9308-3\n  OR 9308-1\n  <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figures for the 2019 bathing season:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8211; 3,348 bathing sites were monitored in mainland France and overseas territories<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> more than 34,000 samples taken <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <strong>92.7%<\/strong> of sites were classified as excellent or good quality (an improvement on 2017 (90.9%) and 2018 (92.6%)). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> 2.1% of sites were classified as insufficient quality (an improvement on 2017 (2.4%) but an increase compared to 2018 (1.6%)). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your Phytocontrol laboratory\nis accredited for the detection of intestinal enterococci and <em>Escherichia\ncoli<\/em> in fresh water, wastewater and saline and\nbrackish water in accordance with standards NF EN ISO 7899-1 and NF EN ISO 9308-3. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will find details in our\naccreditation scopes No. 1-6066 and No. 1-6634.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Need technical, regulatory or pricing information? Our\ncustomer service is available from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday, on <a href=\"tel:+33800900775\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">+33 800 900 775<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:service-clients@phytocontrol.com\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">service-clients@phytocontrol.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And to keep up to date with Phytocontrol news, join us on\nour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/9369065\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn <\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laboratoirePHYTOCONTROL\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook <\/a> pages!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the ARS (Regional Health Agencies) organise the monitoring of bathing water quality at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulatory-watch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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