BATHING WATER

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved in principle updating Europe's bathing water tests considering technical progress since the system's 1976 establishment. The new checks focus on intestinal enterococci and escherischia coli. Also tests will be staged only every two years for beaches with consistently good records and three years at "excellent" beaches.



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