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

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
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.