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The Safe Drinking Water Act⁷ places the responsibility for the safety and purity of drinking water on the EPA. However, the FDA retains the authority over bottled drinking water. Differences between these two standards sometimes create consternation for the agencies, the bottled water industry, and municipal water agencies.

In addition, water, when used as a food ingredient, is a food, and thus, is subject to all the same requirements of the FD&C Act as any other food ingredient. Similarly, for ice added as an ingredient, the FDA has jurisdiction over packaged ice as a food.