Good bathing water quality is achieved if the 95th percentile of all samples at the site in the most recent assessment period is lower than defined limits of intestinal enterococci and E. coli[4]. Limits are set for the number of colony‑forming units in a set volume of water, with lower limits for coastal and transitional waters than inland waters.
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Please note that the Enterococci thresholds were introducted to estimate the fecal input and therefore indirectly indicate the viral load of the water. It was never thought as an indicator for a bacterial load ...