# ISO 5667-3:2003 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards For ISO 5667-3:2003, item title is Water quality — Sampling — Part 3: Guidance on the preservation and handling of water samples; status code is 9599; successor is ISO 5667-3:2012; withdrawn / published date is 2003-12-09, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05. - **Identifier:** ISO 5667-3:2003 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Item title:** Water quality — Sampling — Part 3: Guidance on the preservation and handling of water samples _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Successor:** ISO 5667-3:2012 - **Withdrawn / published date:** 2003-12-09 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ ## What the source says > 33486,IS,,ISO 5667-3:2003,Water quality — Sampling — Part 3: Guidance on the preservation and handling of water samples,Qualité de l'eau — Échantillonnage — Partie 3: Lignes directrices pour la conservation et la manipulation des échantillons d'eau,2003-12-09,3,['13.060.45'],ISO/TC 147/SC 6,9599,[11766],[53569],"['en','fr']",31,

ISO 5667-3:2003 gives general guidelines on the precautions to be taken to preserve and transport all water samples including those for biological analyses but not those intended for microbiological analysis.

These guidelines are particularly appropriate when spot or composite samples cannot be analysed on-site and have to be transported to a laboratory for a ## Source - https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01. Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).