New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
Subchapter 5 - MANUFACTURING, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION, AND HANDLING STANDARDS FOR BOTTLED WATER
Section 8:21-5.10 - Personnel requirements

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 8:21-5.10

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) All persons, while working in the processing and bottling of water, shall conform to good hygienic practices while those persons are on duty, to the extent necessary to prevent contamination of bottled water. The methods for maintaining cleanliness shall include, but are not limited to:

1. Wearing clean outer garments;

2. Maintaining a high degree of personal cleanliness;

3. Washing hands and exposed arms thoroughly with soap and warm water before starting work, after each absence from work station, after smoking, eating, drinking, or visiting the toilet room and at any other time when the hands may have become soiled or contaminated;

4. Removing all insecure jewelry and during periods in which the latter is manipulated by hand, removing from hands any jewelry that cannot be adequately sanitized;

5. If gloves are used in water bottling operations, they shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition;

6. Wearing hair nets, headbands, caps, beard covers, or other effective hair restraints in an effective manner;

7. No storing of clothing or other personal belongings in bottled water processing areas or in areas used for washing equipment or utensils;

8. No eating of food, drinking of beverages, expectorating, or using tobacco in areas where water is being processed or bottled or in areas used for washing of equipment or utensils; and

9. Taking any other necessary precautions to prevent contamination of bottled water with microorganisms or foreign substances including, but not limited to, perspiration, hair, cosmetics, tobacco, chemicals, and medicines.

(b) No person shall be allowed to live or sleep in any room where bottled water is produced, manufactured, packed, stored, bottled, distributed, or sold.

(c) No person affected by disease in a communicable form or while a carrier of such disease, or while affected with boils, sores, infected wounds, or other abnormal sources of microbiological contamination, shall knowingly be permitted to work in a bottled water plant in any capacity in which there is a reasonable possibility of finished product water becoming contaminated by such person, or of disease being transmitted by such persons or other individuals.

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