901:3-7-07 Sanitation control procedures.

(A) Sanitation monitoring.

Each processor shall monitor the conditions and practices during processing. Each processor shall correct in a timely manner any conditions and practices that are not met to ensure, at a minimum, conformance with those conditions and practices specified in Chapter 901:3-1 of the Administrative Code that are both applicable to the plant and the food being processed and relate to the following:

(1) Safety of the water that comes into contact with food or food contact surfaces, or is used in the manufacture of ice;

(2) Condition and cleanliness of food contact surfaces, including utensils, gloves, and outer garments;

(3) Prevention of cross-contamination from insanitary objects to food, food packaging material, and other food contact surfaces, including utensils, gloves, and outer garments, and from raw product to cooked product;

(4) Maintenance of hand washing, hand sanitizing, and toilet facilities;

(5) Protection of food, food packaging material, and food contact surfaces from adulteration with lubricants, fuel, pesticides, cleaning compounds, sanitizing agents, condensate, and other chemical, physical, and biological contaminants;

(6) Proper labeling, storage, and use of toxic compounds;

(7) Control of employee health conditions that could result in the microbiological contamination of food, food packaging materials, and food contact surfaces; and

(8) Exclusion of pests from the food plant.

(B) Sanitation control records.

Each processor shall maintain sanitation control records that, at a minimum, document the monitoring and corrections prescribed by paragraph (A) of this rule. These records are subject to the requirements of rule 901:3-7-05 of the Administrative Code.

HISTORY: Eff 4-28-03

Rule promulgated under: RC 119.03

Rule authorized by: RC 3715.02, 3715.021

Rule amplifies: RC 913.41

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/28/2008