New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
Subchapter 5 - MANUFACTURING, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION, AND HANDLING STANDARDS FOR BOTTLED WATER
Section 8:21-5.2 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Adequate" means that which is needed to accomplish the intended purpose in keeping with good public health practices.
"Adulteration" means the term "adulteration" as defined in N.J.S.A. 24:5-8.
"Approved" means acceptable to the Department, local health authority, or other appropriate administrative agency based on its determination as to the conformance with applicable standards and good public health practices.
"Approved source" means the source of water from a spring, artesian well, drilled well, municipal water supply, or any other source which has been evaluated and found to be of satisfactory sanitary quality as determined by the governmental regulatory agency having primary jurisdiction for that source.
"Aquifer" means a water bearing stratum used as a source of potable water supply.
"Bottled water" means water that falls within the definition established under 21 CFR 165.110(a)(1).
"Bulk water facility" means a place where water intended for potable uses is drawn from an approved source which is transported to a bottling plant by means of tank trucks.
"Certified laboratory" means a laboratory approved by the New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:18, Regulations Governing Laboratory Certification and Standards of Performance.
"CFR" means the Code of Federal Regulations.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.
"Drilled well" means a system whereby water is taken from below the ground through a pipe or piping system or similar installed device utilizing external force or vacuum.
"Expiration date" means the date established by N.J.S.A. 24:12-2 as two years from the date the product was bottled.
"Lot" means a collection of primary containers or units as defined under 21 CFR 165.3.
"Misbranded" means the term "misbranded" as defined in N.J.S.A. 24:5-16 and 17.
"Multi-use containers" means containers intended for use more than one time.
"Nontoxic materials" means materials for product water contact surfaces utilized in the transporting, processing, storing, or packaging of bottled drinking water which are free of substances which may render the water injurious to health or which may adversely affect the flavor, color, odor or bacteriological quality of the water.
"Operations water" means water which is delivered under pressure to a plant for container washing, hand washing, plant and equipment clean up and for other sanitary purposes.
"Plant" means the building or facility or parts thereof, used for or in connection with the manufacturing, storage, processing, packaging, labeling or handling of bottled water.
"Product contact surfaces" means those surfaces that contact product and those surfaces from which drainage onto product or onto surfaces that contact product ordinarily occurs during the normal course of operations.
"Product water" means processed water used by a plant for bottled drinking water.
"Sanitize" means adequate treatment of surfaces by a process that is effective in destroying the vegetative cell of microorganisms of public health significance and in substantially reducing numbers of other microorganisms.
"Source water" means water from a spring, artesian well, drilled well, community water supply or any other approved source which is used for or in connection with bottled water.
"Spring house" means a structure approved by the Department that is constructed over a spring so as to provide complete protection for the source from all types of external sources of contamination.
"Water hauler" means any person who causes bulk water to be transported for bottling for human consumption or other consumer uses from the source to the bottling plant.
