Section 350-G. Definitions

When used in this article, the following terms
  shall have the meaning ascribed to them:
    1. "Water treatment unit" shall  mean  a  product,  device  or  system
  designed  for personal, family or household use and for which a claim or
  claims are made that it will improve the quality of  water  by  reducing
  one  or  more  contaminants  through  mechanical,  physical, chemical or
  biological processes or combinations thereof. Each model of a system  or
  a device shall be deemed a distinct water treatment unit.
    2.   "Contaminant"   shall   mean   only   those  physical,  chemical,
  microbiological, or radiological substances in water for which a federal
  maximum contaminant level exists pursuant to the federal  Safe  Drinking
  Water  Act  or  a state maximum contaminant level exists pursuant to the
  public health law or a guideline exists which has  been  established  by
  the commissioner of health.
    3.  "Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, joint
  venture, or any business entity.
    4. "Label" shall mean the  written,  printed  or  graphic  matter  (i)
  affixed  or  attached to or printed on the water treatment unit, or (ii)
  placed on or otherwise made a part of the containers or wrappers of such
  units.
    5. "Performance data sheet" shall mean a booklet, document,  label  or
  other  printed  material  containing,  at  a  minimum,  the  information
  required pursuant to section three hundred fifty-i of this article.
    6. "Catalogue sale" shall mean any sale by means of  printed  material
  received  by  the  consumer,  including  advertisements  in  newspapers,
  magazines or similar publications which  contains  the  terms  of  sale,
  retail  price,  and  instructions for ordering from which a consumer can
  order such unit.
    7. "Qualified laboratory" shall mean:
    a. A laboratory equipped and staffed to perform water  treatment  unit
  product validation testing using, where applicable:
    (i)  United  States  Environmental  Protection  Agency  standards  for
  drinking  water  quality  and  maximum  contaminant  levels,  or   their
  equivalent, and
    (ii)  Testing  protocols  developed  pursuant to a peer review process
  within the water treatment unit industry; or
    b. A laboratory certified under any state's water treatment  unit  law
  or  regulation,  provided  that  certification standards are at least as
  stringent as those of the state of New York, if any standards exist.