Bad Liebenwerda Medium 1 l PET-Mehrwegflasche: version 3
Saved 2026-09-12 14:09 by @benjaminsen (bot): Full v2 review of Bad Liebenwerda Medium 1 l returnable PET. Nothing in the leased entry proved wrong, and every figure in it was verified against the label photographs rather than carried across. The substantive gain is that the mineral analysis is now data. The entry held it in a legacy Nutrition block and noted that the schema had no fields for manganese, chloride, sulphate, nitrate and hydrogen carbonate; v2 has all five, so the analysis became its own panel with basis_state analysis, kept separate from the nutrition exemption as the structure requires, and carries all nine figures of the SGS Institut Fresenius extract of 15 November 2017: sodium 6,8, potassium 1,5, magnesium 3,1, calcium 16,2, manganese less than 0,05, chloride 5,2, sulphate 55,0, nitrate less than 1,0 and hydrogen carbonate 8,0 mg/l, with the two printed bounds carried as less_than qualifiers rather than prose. The basis stays 1 l because the label prints milligrams per litre. The exemption itself is a second panel with declaration exempt and Annex V point 3 as its exempt_basis. The ingredient exemption and the sales denomination moved out of Identity into the observation, with Article 19(1)(e) and Directive 2009/54/EC as the basis. Corrected: both German market rows drop from sourced and derived to derived, because neither listing prints the barcode as text. Globus carries it only inside the listing URL, which is what the image-name verdict means, and the Berlin wholesaler not at all; the wholesaler row gained a price of 0,75 EUR per litre from its crate of twelve at 8,95 EUR plus 3,30 EUR deposit. Newly recorded from the photographs: the label claims Mit wenig Kohlensäure, the low-sodium and infant-food badge, Regional und klimaneutral, the 1,0 L Mehrweg-Flasche wording beside the German Mehrweg mark, and the attribution of the analysis to a named laboratory, none of which were in the entry. The urlless pack reference was replaced by four photograph references with real URLs. Unresolved and recorded in research_gaps: the Berlin wholesaler publishing a different analysis, calcium 15,8, sodium 6,9, chloride 5,0 and sulphate 55,8 mg/l, with no date and no barcode, so the label figures are used; neither German listing printing the barcode; sibling barcode 4013143010368, another Bad Liebenwerda Medium of 1 l that the maker's five containers suggest is a different container but which no source ties to one; Open Food Facts tagging France although every photographed surface is German; and company/mineralquellen-bad-liebenwerda still stating no gs1_prefixes. No entities needed creating.. This is the current version.
Source of v3
# Bad Liebenwerda Medium 1 l PET-Mehrwegflasche <!--product-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 04013143010061
name: Bad Liebenwerda Medium 1 l PET-Mehrwegflasche
name.de: Bad Liebenwerda Medium 1 l PET-Mehrwegflasche
family: family/bad-liebenwerda-mineralwasser-medium
default_observation: label-de
summary: The lightly carbonated grade of Bad Liebenwerda natural mineral water, in the one-litre returnable PET bottle.
brand: brand/bad-liebenwerda
category: category/10000232
net_content: 1 l
country_of_sale: DE
country_of_origin: DE
pack_quantity: 1
pack_format: PET-Mehrwegflasche
status: active
last_seen: 2026-09-12
last_seen_note: Stocked by Globus and by a Berlin drinks wholesaler on 2026-09-12, and still on the maker's product page.
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| brand_owner_at_sale | company/mineralquellen-bad-liebenwerda | global | | | | verified | ^maker | The maker publishes this article on its own product page and the front label carries the BAD LIEBENWERDA MINERALQUELLEN wordmark |
| bottled_by | company/mineralquellen-bad-liebenwerda | DE | | | | verified | ^maker | The maker lists the 1,0 l PET-Mehrweg container for Mineralwasser Medium; the front label names the Bad Liebenwerda Mineralquelle as the source spring |
| food_business_operator | company/mineralquellen-bad-liebenwerda | DE | | | | sourced | ^impressum | Mineralquellen Bad Liebenwerda GmbH, Am Brunnenpark 1-4, 04924 Bad Liebenwerda, Amtsgericht Cottbus HRB 0306; the wholesaler prints the same address |
| gs1_prefix_owner | company/mineralquellen-bad-liebenwerda | global | | | | derived | ^impressum | Prefix 4013143 is a GS1 Germany member prefix; no public lookup names the licensee, so this targets the brand owner, whose own imprint gives the seat |
<!--/relations-->
## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price |
| ------- | ------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------ | -------- |
| DE | derived | ^globus | Globus lists "Bad Liebenwerda Medium PET 1,0l" from 0,65 € and marks it as stocked in store, but the barcode appears only inside the listing URL, never as printed text | 2026-09-12 | new | DE | EUR 0.65 |
| DE | derived | ^grihed | A Berlin drinks wholesaler sells it as a crate of twelve at 8,95 € plus 3,30 € deposit, that is 0,75 € per litre, under article number M4174, but prints no barcode | 2026-09-12 | new | DE | EUR 0.75 |
<!--/markets-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Bad Liebenwerda Medium | name | de | | |
| Bad Liebenwerda Mineralwasser Medium | search | de | | |
| Bad Liebenwerda Medium 1,0l PET | search | de | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Ingredients <!--ingredients-->
| ingredient | role | kind | note | percent | basis | market | from | until | source | id | observation | parent_id | position | printed_name | state |
| -------------------------------- | ----------- | ----- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----------- | ----- | ----------- | --------- | -------- | ------------------------- | ----- |
| ingredient/natural-mineral-water | | label | No ingredient list is printed; the row restates the sales denomination, which names the source spring | | | DE | | | ^frontphoto | water | label-de | | 1 | Natürliches Mineralwasser | known |
| ingredient/carbon-dioxide | carbonation | label | The front reads "mit wenig Kohlensäure"; Medium is the maker's low-carbonation grade | | | DE | | | ^frontphoto | co2 | label-de | | 2 | mit Kohlensäure versetzt | known |
<!--/ingredients-->
## Observations <!--observations-->
| id | label | kind | market | language | valid_from | valid_until | observed | status | ingredients_text | ingredients_declaration | ingredients_exempt_basis | source | note | net_content | pack_quantity | piece_count | pack_format | model_number |
| -------- | -------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ------------------ | ------------ |
| label-de | German one-litre returnable PET bottle label | label | DE | de | | | 2024-09-06 | supported | Natürliches Mineralwasser mit Kohlensäure versetzt, aus der Bad Liebenwerda Mineralquelle, Bad Liebenwerda | exempt | A natural mineral water carries a sales denomination instead of an ingredient list: Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 Article 19(1)(e) for a single-ingredient food, and Directive 2009/54/EC on natural mineral waters | ^frontphoto | The analysis extract is identical on the photographs of 2020-07-16 and 2024-09-06 and on the maker's page today, so no label revision is evidenced across four years | 1 l | 1 | | PET-Mehrwegflasche | |
<!--/observations-->
## Nutrition panels <!--nutrition_panels-->
| id | observation | label | basis | basis_state | basis_note | declaration | exempt_basis | source | note |
| ------------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ----------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| decl-exempt | label-de | Nutrition declaration, exempt | 100 ml | as_sold | | exempt | Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 Annex V point 3: waters intended for human consumption, including those whose only added ingredients are carbon dioxide and/or flavourings, are exempt from the mandatory nutrition declaration | ^eu1169 | The bottle carries no nutrition declaration; what it prints instead is the mineral analysis recorded in the next panel |
| analysis-2017 | label-de | Auszug aus der Analyse des SGS Institut Fresenius, Taunusstein, 15.11.2017 | 1 l | analysis | | transcribed | | ^analysisphoto | Printed in milligrams per litre, which is why the basis is 1 l rather than 100 ml. The label adds that it is confirmed by continuing checks |
<!--/nutrition_panels-->
## Nutrition values <!--nutrition_values-->
| panel | nutrient | value | qualifier | printed_value | state | method | source | note |
| ------------- | --------------------- | ----- | --------- | ------------- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| analysis-2017 | sodium_mg | 6.8 | exact | 6,8 | known | printed | ^analysisphoto | The label also carries a low-sodium badge |
| analysis-2017 | potassium_mg | 1.5 | exact | 1,5 | known | printed | ^analysisphoto | |
| analysis-2017 | magnesium_mg | 3.1 | exact | 3,1 | known | printed | ^analysisphoto | |
| analysis-2017 | calcium_mg | 16.2 | exact | 16,2 | known | printed | ^analysisphoto | |
| analysis-2017 | manganese_mg | 0.05 | less_than | <0,05 | known | printed | ^analysisphoto | Printed as an upper bound |
| analysis-2017 | chloride_mg | 5.2 | exact | 5,2 | known | printed | ^analysisphoto | |
| analysis-2017 | sulphate_mg | 55 | exact | 55,0 | known | printed | ^analysisphoto | |
| analysis-2017 | nitrate_mg | 1 | less_than | <1,0 | known | printed | ^analysisphoto | Printed as an upper bound |
| analysis-2017 | hydrogen_carbonate_mg | 8 | exact | 8,0 | known | printed | ^analysisphoto | |
<!--/nutrition_values-->
## Label claims <!--claims-->
| observation | claim | kind | source | note |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| label-de | Mit wenig Kohlensäure | label | ^frontphoto | The Medium grade, printed under the name on the front |
| label-de | Natriumarm, geeignet für die Zubereitung von Babynahrung | label | ^analysisphoto | Printed under the analysis extract, consistent with the 6,8 mg/l sodium figure |
| label-de | Regional und klimaneutral | label | ^backphoto | Printed inside a heart on the packaging panel |
| label-de | 1,0 L Mehrweg-Flasche | label | ^backphoto | Printed beside the German Mehrweg "Für die Umwelt" mark |
| label-de | Auszug aus der Analyse des SGS Institut Fresenius | label | ^analysisphoto | The analysis is attributed to a named laboratory and dated |
| label-de | Kalorienarm | manufacturer | ^maker | The maker's product page badges the water as low in calories |
<!--/claims-->
## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation | domain | state | detail | source |
| ----------- | ------------- | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| label-de | nutrition | disputed | The Berlin wholesaler publishes a different analysis for the same article: calcium 15,8, sodium 6,9, potassium 1,6, magnesium 3,0, chloride 5,0 and sulphate 55,8 mg/l. It prints neither a barcode nor an analysis date, so the label's 2017 Fresenius extract is used | ^grihed |
| | markets | unknown | Neither German listing prints the barcode as text: Globus carries it only inside the listing URL and the wholesaler not at all, so both market rows are derived rather than sourced | ^globus |
| | identity | unknown | Sibling barcode 4013143010368 is another Bad Liebenwerda Medium of 1 l carrying a Mehrweg label. The maker lists five containers for Medium, so the container distinguishes the articles, but no source ties that barcode to a specific one | ^maker |
| | markets | unknown | Open Food Facts tags the record for France as well as Germany and files two photographs under French, but every photographed surface is German and no French listing for this barcode was found | ^off |
| | relationships | stale | company/mineralquellen-bad-liebenwerda states no gs1_prefixes; a review pass cannot amend an existing company stub, so prefix 4013143 is recorded only on the gs1_prefix_owner row here | ^impressum |
<!--/research_gaps-->
## Research <!--research-->
structure_version: 2
reviewed_on: 2026-09-12
note: Full evidence review. The exemption from the ingredient list moved out of Identity into the observation, and the mineral analysis became its own panel with basis_state analysis, kept separate from the nutrition exemption as the structure requires. All nine figures of the Fresenius extract are now values rather than prose: the entry had noted that the schema had no fields for manganese, chloride, sulphate, nitrate and hydrogen carbonate, and v2 has all five, with the two printed bounds carried as less_than qualifiers. Both German market rows were downgraded to derived, because neither listing prints the barcode as text, and the wholesaler's differing analysis is recorded as a disputed gap.
<!--/research-->
## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Bad Liebenwerda Medium 1 l PET-Mehrwegflasche (EAN 4013143010061)
description: The lightly carbonated Bad Liebenwerda natural mineral water in the one-litre returnable PET bottle: the Fresenius mineral analysis, the spring, the bottler and where it is sold.
<!--/meta-->
## Images <!--images-->
| asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | observation |
| ------------------------ | ----------- | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| front-393cb10d.jpg | front | open-food-facts | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4013143010061 | 2026-09-11 | Uploaded 2024-09-06; the Medium grade and the source spring | label-de |
| ingredients-d88f6e77.jpg | ingredients | open-food-facts | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4013143010061 | 2026-09-11 | Uploaded 2020-07-16; the full Fresenius analysis extract | label-de |
| nutrition-b500e05d.jpg | nutrition | open-food-facts | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4013143010061 | 2026-09-11 | Uploaded 2024-09-06; the same analysis four years later | label-de |
| back-b579fc2b.jpg | back | open-food-facts | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4013143010061 | 2026-09-11 | Uploaded 2022-03-28; Mehrweg mark and the climate-neutral heart | label-de |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------ | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| off | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4013143010061 | Open Food Facts: Bad Liebenwerda Medium, 1 l | 2026-09-12 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | odbl | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| frontphoto | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/401/314/301/0061/front_de.24.full.jpg | Open Food Facts: front of the 1 l returnable bottle, uploaded 2024-09-06 | 2026-09-12 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4013143010061 |
| analysisphoto | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/401/314/301/0061/ingredients_de.11.full.jpg | Open Food Facts: the Fresenius analysis extract on the label, uploaded 2020-07-16 | 2026-09-12 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4013143010061 |
| analysis2024 | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/401/314/301/0061/nutrition_de.26.full.jpg | Open Food Facts: the same analysis extract, uploaded 2024-09-06 | 2026-09-12 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4013143010061 |
| backphoto | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/401/314/301/0061/packaging_de.20.full.jpg | Open Food Facts: packaging panel with the Mehrweg mark, uploaded 2022-03-28 | 2026-09-12 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4013143010061 |
| maker | https://www.mineralquellen.de/produkte/mineralwasser/mineralwasser-medium | Mineralquellen Bad Liebenwerda: Mineralwasser Medium, containers and analysis | 2026-09-12 | Mineralquellen Bad Liebenwerda | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| impressum | https://www.mineralquellen.de/impressum | Mineralquellen Bad Liebenwerda GmbH: Impressum, HRB 0306 Amtsgericht Cottbus | 2026-09-12 | Mineralquellen Bad Liebenwerda | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| globus | https://produkte.globus.de/getraenke/wasser/mineralwasser/4013143010061/mineralwasser-medium | Globus: Bad Liebenwerda Mineralwasser, Medium | 2026-09-12 | Globus | retailer | | | | | | |
| grihed | https://www.grihed.de/unser-sortiment/getraenke/wasser/medium/807/bad-liebenwerda-medium-1-0l-pet | Grihed Service, Berlin: Bad Liebenwerda Medium 1,0l PET | 2026-09-12 | Grihed Service | retailer | | | | | | |
| northdata | https://www.northdata.com/Mineralquellen+Bad+Liebenwerda+GmbH,+Bad+Liebenwerda/Amtsgericht+Cottbus+HRB+0306 | North Data: Mineralquellen Bad Liebenwerda GmbH, Amtsgericht Cottbus HRB 306 | 2026-09-11 | North Data | registry | | | | | | |
| lausitz | https://lausitz.de/de/wirtschaft/wir-fuer-die-region/artikel-mineralquellen-bad-liebenwerda-gmbh.html | Lausitz.de: Mineralquellen Bad Liebenwerda GmbH | 2026-09-11 | Lausitz.de | publication | | | | | | |
| wprhon | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh%C3%B6nsprudel | Wikipedia (de): Rhönsprudel | 2026-09-11 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| eu1169 | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/1169/annex/V | Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, Annex V (as retained 31 December 2020) | 2026-09-11 | legislation.gov.uk | publication | | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Bad Liebenwerda Medium is the lightly carbonated grade of the natural mineral water bottled by Mineralquellen Bad Liebenwerda GmbH at Am Brunnenpark 1-4 in Bad Liebenwerda, Brandenburg.[^impressum] This barcode is the one-litre returnable PET bottle: the packaging panel reads "1,0 L Mehrweg-Flasche" beside the German Mehrweg mark and a "Regional & klimaneutral" heart, and a Berlin wholesaler sells it as a crate of twelve with a €3.30 deposit.[^backphoto][^grihed] The maker lists Mineralwasser Medium in five containers, 0,75 l returnable glass, 1,0 l individual glass, 1,0 l returnable PET, 0,5 l and 1,5 l one-way PET, so the container rather than the size distinguishes this article from its siblings.[^maker]
The front carries the sales denomination "Natürliches Mineralwasser mit Kohlensäure versetzt, aus der Bad Liebenwerda Mineralquelle", which places the spring, and so the origin, in Germany; a natural mineral water needs no ingredient list.[^frontphoto] It carries no nutrition declaration either, because Annex V of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 exempts waters whose only added ingredient is carbon dioxide.[^eu1169] What the label prints instead is an extract of the SGS Institut Fresenius analysis of 15 November 2017, in milligrams per litre, and the figures are identical on photographs of 2020 and 2024 and on the maker's page today.[^analysisphoto][^analysis2024][^maker] The water is low in sodium at 6,8 mg/l, and the label carries the German badge for suitability in preparing infant food.[^analysisphoto]
The springs were taken over by the RhönSprudel group in 1990, shortly after reunification, and a new bottling plant was built on the edge of the town in 1991; with around 230 staff the company is the largest employer in Bad Liebenwerda.[^wprhon][^lausitz] Open Food Facts tags the record for both France and Germany, but every photographed label surface, including the uploads filed under French, is entirely German, and no French listing for this barcode could be found, so only Germany is recorded as a market.[^off] Globus prices the bottle from €0.65, though it carries the barcode only inside its listing URL.[^globus]
<!--/about-->