New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 5 - Drinking Water Supplies › Subpart 5-6 - Bottled And Bulk Water Standards › Section 5-6.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Subpart, the following words or terms shall
					 have the indicated meaning, except as otherwise specifically provided:
(a) Approved laboratory shall mean a
				  laboratory approved and certified by the New York State Department of Health's
				  Environmental Laboratory Approval Program.
(b) Approved source shall mean 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 State.
(c) Artesian well water shall mean water that
				  comes from a deep well where water is forced up by underground
				  pressure.
(d) Bottled water shall
				  mean any product, including natural spring or well water taken from municipal
				  or private utility systems or other water, distilled water, deionized water, or
				  any of the foregoing to which chemicals may be added, which are put into sealed
				  bottles, packages, or other containers, to be sold for domestic consumption or
				  culinary use, involving a likelihood of such water being ingested by human
				  beings.
(e) Bottled and Bulk Water
				  Standards shall mean this Subpart.
(f) Bulk water shall mean water intended for
				  potable uses which is transported by tank trucks.
(g) Commissioner shall mean the Commissioner
				  of Health of the State of New York.
(h) Department shall mean the New York State
				  Department of Health.
(i) Food and
				  Drugs 21 CFR shall mean the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Food and
				  Drugs, as published in the Federal Register, Volume 42, page 14355, March 15,
				  1977, as amended by Volume 44, page 12175, March 6, 1979 and found in  21 CFR,
				  Part 129  - Processing and Bottling of Bottled Drinking Water, pages 137 through
				  141, revised as of April 1, 1988. A copy is available for public inspection at
				  the offices of the Records Access Officer of the Department of Health, Empire
				  State Plaza, Corning Tower, Albany, NY 12237.
(j) Maximum contaminant level (MCL) shall
				  mean permissible level of a physical, chemical, radiological or microbiological
				  substance in water.
(k) Multi-use
				  containers shall mean those containers which are intended by the bottler for
				  more than one use.
(l) Nontoxic
				  materials shall mean materials used in transporting, storing and packaging of
				  bottled or bulk water, which are free of substances which may render the water
				  harmful to health or which may adversely affect the flavor, color, odor, or
				  microbiological or chemical quality of the finished product.
(m) Person shall mean an individual,
				  corporation, company, association, partnership, State agency, municipality,
				  county or Federal agency.
(n)
				  Person in charge shall mean the designated employee or employees who are
				  appointed and in responsible charge of the bottling facility and who are
				  present at all times during the bottling operation.
(o) Principal organic contaminant (POC) shall
				  mean any organic chemical compound belonging to the following classes, except
				  for trichloromethane (chloroform), dibromochloromethane, bromodichloromethane,
				  tribromomethane (bromoform) and any other organic chemical contaminant with a
				  specific MCL listed in section
				  5-6.11  of this
				  Subpart:
(1) Halogenated Alkane.
(2) Halogenated Ether.
(3) Halobenzenes and Substituted
				  Halobenzenes.
(4) Benzene and
				  Alkyl- or Nitrogen-Substituted Benzenes.
(5) Substituted, Unsaturated
				  Hydrocarbons.
(6) Halogenated
				  Nonaromatic Cyclic Hydrocarbons.