Is it true, as stated in certain product advertising, that the New South Wales State Department of Health approved a copper and silver based ioniser system for use in NSW public swimming pools?
The NSW Department of Health has no power to approve, accredit or otherwise endorse a swimming pool disinfectant or disinfection system. However, it does have criteria by which it can assess and determine the suitability and efficacy of a disinfection process. From such an assessment, NSW environmental health officers can be informed of whether the correct use of that disinfection system would not be likely to cause a risk to public health. If a sanitising system could satisfy those criteria with scientific tests, then the NSW Department of Health would not offer an objection to its use under certain conditions. Over two years ago, one copper and silver based ioniser system submitted test results showing that it had satisfied the NSW criteria existing at that time. As a result, NSW Health issued a letter dated 17 September 2002, confirming that it had no objection to the use of this system subject to certain conditions as set out in that letter. However, in a hearing of the Administrat
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