Bottled Water Recalled

A bottled-water company announced a recall Monday that covers its product sold under more than a dozen private labels, including the house brands of such South Jersey super-markets and convenience stores as ShopRite, Acme and 7-Eleven.

Niagara Bottling said the company “is issuing a voluntary recall due to concerns that one of its spring sources is contaminated with E. coli ... a bacteria whose presence indicates that the water may be contaminated with human or animal wastes.”

Niagara is based in California, but the company said plants that packed and shipped the recalled water are in Allentown and Hamburg, Pennsylvania.

In its announcement Monday, Niagara said it has “not received any complaints of injury or illness of any kind,” but is recalling the water “out of an abundance of caution and in the strict interest of public safety.”

 Niagara also said the company has stopped using the source with the contaminated water because the “spring source did not notify us in a timely manner.”

Along with the ShopRite, Acme and 7-Eleven brand names, the affected water is marketed under the following labels: Wegman’s, Acadia, Best Yet, Nature’s Place, Shaw’s, Price Rite, Big Y, Super Chill, Western Beef Blue and Morning Fresh — along with Niagara’s own label.

The company says that its “only affected products have codes that begin with the letter F (for Hamburg) or A (for Allentown).”

Acme officials issued a statement Monday saying they pulled all 24-packs of the store brand spring water as of Saturday — out of its own “abundance of caution.” Acme also took Super Chill 24-packs off its shelves.

“Any customer who purchased these products should discard them or return them to their local Acme for a full refund,” the store said.

In a statement on its website Monday, ShopRite said it also is removing all the recalled water from its shelves. But the chain added that “we have multiple suppliers of bottled spring water but ONLY spring water bottled by (Niagara) … bearing specific expirations dates is impacted. Spring water from other sources or bottlers is not affected by this recall.”

ShopRite also said it will give full refunds to anyone who returns the possibly tainted water.

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