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[Hong Kong Consumer Council apologizes for Nongfu Spring incident] Cailian News reported on July 18 that the Hong Kong Consumer Council’s official website issued a clarification statement saying that after meeting and in-depth exchanges with representatives of Nongfu Spring yesterday, the Council learned that the product in question was neither "natural mineral water" nor "purified water", but "drinking natural water", and the standard adopted by the company was the "National Food Safety Standard for Packaged Drinking Water" (GB19298-2014) in its production area, namely the mainland. In this regard, the Council reclassified the sample as an independent category "drinking natural water" and re-scored it. After the re-scoring, the overall performance of the sample was adjusted from 4.5 stars to 5 stars.