TABLE OF CONTENTS - New Jersey

1 NJ Department of Health & Senior Services Consumer & Environmental Health Services Effective Date: January 2, 2007. Food & Drug Safety Program (609) 588-3123. CHAPTER 24 ( 8:24). Sanitation in Retail Food Establishments and Food and Beverage Vending Machines . TABLE OF CONTENTS . Subchapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS Subchapter 6. PHYSICAL FACILITIES. Violations Materials for construction and repair Severability Design, construction, and installation Purpose Lighting, ventilation, and dressing areas Scope Segregation & location of distressed Definitions merchandise Maintenance & operation Subchapter 2. MANAGEMENT & PERSONNEL Toilet facilities Supervision Handwashing facilities Employee health Personal cleanliness Subchapter 7. POISONOUS or TOXIC. Hygienic practices MATERIALS. Labeling and identification Subchapter 3. FOOD Operational supplies & applications Characteristics Stock & retail sale Sources, specs, original container & records Protection from contamination after receiving Subchapter 8.

2 ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS. Destroying organisms of public health concern Legal authority Limiting organisms of public health concern Inspection of retail food establishments Food identity, presentation & on-premises Examination of records labeling Examination & condemnation of unwholesome, Highly susceptible populations contaminated or adulterated food & drink Retail food establishments outside jurisdiction Subchapter 4. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS & LINENS Emergency occurrences Materials for construction & repair Salvaged food Design & construction Closure for infection Equipment, utensils, numbers & capacities Penalties Equipment location & installation Report of inspections Maintenance & operation Evaluation of reports Cleaning of equipment & utensils Public posting of inspection reports Sanitization of equipment & utensils Public availability of inspection reports Manual warewashing equipment Interpretations Mechanical warewashing equipment Laundering Subchapter 9. REVIEW of PLANS.

3 Protection of clean items Submission and approval Vending machines Pre-operational inspection Subchapter 5. WATER, PLUMBING & WASTE Subchapter 10. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS. Water Choking prevention posters Plumbing system Smoking in restaurants & food stores Mobile water tank & mobile food retail food establishment water tank Sewage, other liquid wastes & rainwater Refuse, recyclables, & returnables 1. 8:24 Subchapter 1. General Provisions Subchapter 1. "Beverage" means a liquid for drinking, including water. GENERAL PROVISIONS. "Bottled drinking water" means water that is sealed in bottles, packages, or other containers and 8 Violations; declaration of nuisances offered for sale for human consumption, including bottled mineral water. Retail food establishments in violation of this chapter are hereby declared to be nuisances, hazardous to "Certification number" means a unique health. combination of letters and numbers assigned by a shellfish control authority to a molluscan shellfish 8 Severability dealer according to the definition stated in the Department of Health and Human Services, Public If any provision or application of any provision of this Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, chapter is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect National Shellfish Sanitation Program's Guide for the other provisions or applications of this chapter.

4 Control of Molluscan Shellfish (2003), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, and available through the Interstate Shellfish 8 Purpose Sanitation Conference, 209-2 Dawson Road, Columbia, SC 29223, and available at The purpose of this chapter is to safeguard public ~ . health and provide to consumers food that is safe and unadulterated. "CIP" means cleaned in place by the circulation or flowing by mechanical means through a piping 8 Scope system of a detergent solution, water rinse, and sanitizing solution onto or over equipment surfaces This chapter establishes definitions; sets standards that require cleaning, such as the method used, in for management and personnel, food operations, and part, to clean and sanitize a frozen dessert machine. equipment and facilities; and provides for retail food The term does not include the cleaning of equipment establishment plan review, inspection, and employee such as band saws, slicers, or mixers that are restrictions.

5 Subjected to in place manual cleaning without the use of a CIP system. 8 Definitions "CFR" means Code of Federal Regulations. For the purpose of this chapter, the following words, "Commercially raised game animal" means game phrases, names and terms shall have the following animals: meanings, unless the context clearly indicates 1. Commercially raised for food and raised, otherwise. slaughtered, and processed under a voluntary inspection program that is conducted by the "Accredited program" means a food protection agency that has animal health jurisdiction; or manager certification program that has been evaluated and listed by an accrediting agency as 2. Under a voluntary inspection program conforming to national standards for organizations administered by the USDA for game animals that certify individuals. The term refers to the such as exotic animals (reindeer, elk, deer, certification process and is a designation based upon antelope, water buffalo, or bison) that are an independent evaluation of factors such as the "inspected and approved" in accordance with sponsor's mission; organizational structure; staff Exotic Animals; Voluntary Inspections, 9 CFR.

6 Resources; revenue sources; policies; public Part 352, incorporated herein by reference, as information regarding program scope and eligibility amended and supplemented, or rabbits that requirement; recertification, discipline and grievance are "inspected and certified" in accordance procedures; and test development and with Voluntary Inspection of Rabbits and Edible administration. The term does not refer to training Products Thereof, 9 CFR Part 354, incorporated functions or education programs. herein by reference, as amended and supplemented. "aw" means water activity which is a measure of the free moisture in a food, is the quotient of the water "Color additive" has the meaning stated in the vapor pressure of the substance divided by the vapor Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 pressure of pure water at the same temperature, and 321(t) and 21 CFR (f) and , both is indicated by the symbol aw. incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented. 2. 8:24 Food-contact surface.

7 "Comminuted" means reduced in size by methods 2. Having no utility connection, a utility including chopping, flaking, grinding, or mincing. The connection that disconnects quickly, or a term includes fish or meat products that are reduced flexible utility connection line of sufficient in size and restructured or reformulated such as length to allow the equipment to be moved for gefilte fish, gyros, ground beef, and sausage; and a cleaning of the equipment and adjacent area. mixture of two or more types of meat that have been reduced in size and combined, such as sausages "Employee" means the operator, person in charge, made from two or more meats. person having supervisory or management duties, person on the payroll, family member, volunteer, "Confirmed disease outbreak" means a foodborne person performing work under contractual disease outbreak in which laboratory analysis of agreement, or other person working in a retail food appropriate specimens identifies a causative agent establishment.

8 And epidemiological analysis implicates the food as the source of the illness. "EPA" means the Environmental Protection Agency. "Consumer" means a person who is a member of the public, takes possession of food, is not "Equipment" means an article that is used in the functioning in the capacity of an operator of a retail operation of a retail food establishment such as a food establishment or food processing plant, and freezer, grinder, hood, ice maker, meat block, mixer, does not offer the food for resale. oven, reach-in refrigerator, scale, sink, slicer, stove, TABLE , temperature measuring device for ambient air, "Corrosion-resistant material" means a material vending machine, or warewashing machine. The term that maintains acceptable surface cleanability does not include items used for handling or storing characteristics under prolonged influence of the food large quantities of packaged foods that are received to be contacted, the normal use of cleaning from a supplier in a cased or overwrapped lot, such compounds and sanitizing solutions, and other as hand trucks, forklifts, dollies, pallets, racks, and conditions of the use environment.

9 Skids. "Critical control point" means a point or procedure "Fish" means fresh or saltwater finfish, crustaceans in a specific food system where loss of control may and other forms of aquatic life (including alligator, result in an unacceptable health risk. frog, aquatic turtle, jellyfish, sea cucumber, and sea urchin and the roe of such animals) other than birds "Department" means the New Jersey Department or mammals, and all mollusks, if such animal life is of Health and Senior Services. intended for human consumption. The term includes an edible human food product derived in whole or in "Drinking water" means water that meets the part from fish, including fish that have been provisions of the NJSDWA, is traditionally known as processed in any manner. The term does not include "potable water" and includes the term "water," raw molluscan shellfish. except where the term used connotes that the water is not potable, such as "boiler water," "mop water," "Food" means a raw, cooked, or processed edible "rainwater," "wastewater," and "nondrinking" water.

10 Substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for "Dry storage area" means a room or area human consumption, or chewing gum. designated for the storage of packaged or containerized bulk food that is not potentially "Food additive" has the meaning stated in the hazardous and dry goods such as single service Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21. items. 321(s) and 21 CFR (e), , and , both incorporated herein by reference, "Easily cleanable" means a characteristic of a as amended and supplemented. surface that: 1. Allows effective removal of soil by normal "Foodborne disease outbreak" means the cleaning methods; and occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food. 2. Is dependent on the material, design, construction, and installation of the surface. "Food-contact surface" means: 1. A surface of equipment or a utensil with "Easily movable" means: which food normally comes into contact; or 1.