Quality Criteria of the European Spas Association (ESPA)
Adopted unanimously during the General Assembly 2006 in São Pedro do Sul (P) (.pdf) (presentation)
Contents
Preface...........................................................................................................
Preamble.........................................................................................................
Health – a human-ecology balance.....................................................................
Application .....................................................................................................
Local natural remedies......................................................................................
1 Natural local remedies....................................................................................
1.1 Healing waters ...........................................................................................
1.1.1 Characterisation ......................................................................................
1.1.2 Medicinal-balneological assessment ...........................................................
1.1.2.1 Source description and hydrological characterisation..................................
1.1.2.2 General prevention of water pollution.......................................................
1.1.2.3 Protection of medicinal springs................................................................
1.1.2.4 Protection zones....................................................................................
1.1.2.5 Natural fluctuations of composition..........................................................
1.1.3 Physical, chemical, biological and microbiological properties...........................
1.1.4 Analysis of healing waters ........................................................................
1.1.4.1 Minimum requirements for analyses of healing waters................................
1.1.5 Control analysis and monitoring ................................................................
1.2 Natural local healing gases...........................................................................
1.2.1 Medicinal-balneological assessment ...........................................................
1.2.2 Physical, chemical and microbiological properties (= analysis of healing gas)...
1.2.2.1 Minimum requirements for healing gas analyses .......................................
1.2.3 Control analysis/monitoring.......................................................................
1.3 Natural peloids...........................................................................................
1.3.1 Medicinal-balneological assessment ...........................................................
1.3.2 Classification...........................................................................................
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