Alaska Administrative Code
Title 18 - Environmental Conservation
Chapter 31 - Alaska Food Code
Article 2 - Food Care
18 AAC 31.210 - Prohibited food

Universal Citation: 18 AK Admin Code 18 AAC 31.210

Current through August 30, 2024

Because of significant health hazards and the potential for human illness, the operator of a food establishment may not allow the following food in the food establishment under any circumstance:

(1) molluscan shellfish, unless the operator complies with 18 AAC 31.200(c) (6) and (d) and 18 AAC 31.335;

(2) the following game meats and oils:

(A) fox meat;

(B) polar bear meat;

(C) bear meat;

(D) walrus meat;

(E) seal oil, with or without meat;

(F) whale oil, with or without meat;

(3) fermented game meat, such as beaver tail, whale flipper, seal flipper, and muktuk;

(4) fermented seafood products, such as salmon eggs or fish;

(5) hermetically sealed low-acid food, unless the food is obtained from a food processing establishment that is permitted or certified by the local, state, or federal agency with jurisdiction;

(6) reduced-oxygen packaged food, unless

(A) the food is obtained from a food processing establishment permitted under this chapter or 18 AAC 34;

(B) the food meets the requirements of 18 AAC 31.265; or

(C) the food is obtained from a source approved by the USDA or FDA;

(7) smoked or dried seafood products, unless those products are prepared in a seafood processing facility permitted under 18 AAC 34 or are from another approved source.

Authority:AS 17.20.005

AS 17.20.010

AS 17.20.020

AS 17.20.040

AS 17.20.072

AS 17.20.180

AS 17.20.290

AS 44.46.020

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