part_subject: "STANDARDS FOR THE GROWING, HARVESTING, PACKING, AND HOLDING OF PRODUCE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION"
subpart_code: "E"
subpart_subject: "Agricultural Water"
section_number: "112.49"
section_subject: "What alternatives may I establish and use in lieu of the requirements of this subpart?"
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 112.49"
title_name: "Title 21"
title_subject: "Food and Drugs"
parts_covered: "Parts 100 to 169"
revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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Provided you satisfy the requirements of § 112.12, you may establish and use one or more of the following alternatives:
(a)An alternative microbial quality criterion (or criteria) using an appropriate indicator of fecal contamination, in lieu of the microbial quality criteria in § 112.44(b);
(b)An alternative microbial die-off rate and an accompanying maximum time interval, in lieu of the microbial die-off rate and maximum time interval in § 112.45(b)(1)(i);
(c)An alternative minimum number of samples used in the initial survey for an untreated surface water source, in lieu of the minimum number of samples required under § 112.46(b)(1)(i)(A); and
(d)An alternative minimum number of samples used in the annual survey for an untreated surface water source, in lieu of the minimum number of samples required under § 112.46(b)(2)(i)(A).