During food processing, water is comming in contact with raw materials, or represent itself a basic raw material. This impose the necessity that water used in food industry to correspond to quality standard 458/2002. The goal of the study was to establish the most important physico-chemical parameters level of tape water used in meat processing and if these parameters are between legal admitted limits. Excepting total hardness, which is double than admitted level, the other quality parameters were between admitted levels.