Florida Administrative Code
64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
64E - Division of Environmental Health
Chapter 64E-28 - TATTOOING
Section 64E-28.002 - Definitions

(1) Alcohol-based hand sanitizer - An antimicrobial skin sanitizer which contains a minimum concentration of at least 60% alcohol.

(2) Aseptic technique - Practices used by a tattoo artist to prevent cross contamination.

(3) Compromised package - A wet, torn, or stained package.

(4) Contaminated - means the presence of disease-causing organisms on inanimate objects or surfaces.

(5) Cross contamination - The act of spreading disease-causing organisms from one surface to another.

(6) Department - The Department of Health and its representative county health departments.

(7) Disinfect - The use of a product registered with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) as a tuberculocidal disinfectant which results in the reduction in the number of disease-causing organisms on objects or surfaces, thereby rendering them safe for handling and use.

(8) Equipment - All machinery, including fixtures, containers, vessels, tools, devices, implements, furniture, display and storage areas, sinks and all other apparatus and appurtenances used in connection with the operation of a tattoo establishment.

(9) Fixed - Incapable of being moved.

(10) Government-issued photo identification - A document issued by a state, federal, or foreign government containing the photo of the person it is identifying.

(11) Inactive license - A tattoo establishment or artist license which has not been renewed on or before the date of expiration.

(12) Instruments - Hand pieces and other tools that may come in contact with a customer's body or be exposed to body fluids during tattooing procedures.

(13) Minor - An individual who is less than eighteen (18) years of age.

(14) Person - Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or public body.

(15) Registered business name - The name, as registered with the Department of State, under which a tattoo establishment operates.

(16) Registered agent for service of process - A person, as registered with the Department of State, authorized by a tattoo establishment to receive legal notices for the establishment.

(17) Single-use - means products or items that are intended for one-time, one-person use and are disposed of after use on each customer, such as cotton swabs or balls, gauze pads, tissues or paper products, sanitary coverings, razors, instruments that pierce the skin, and protective gloves.

(18) Spore strip - A device used to monitor the sterilization process in a steam autoclave to ensure destruction of Geobacillus stearothermophilus spores.

(19) Sterilization - The use of a steam autoclave to destroy all forms of microbial life, including spores.

(20) Tattoo artist - A tattoo artist as defined in Section 381.00771, F.S., including an artist who performs cosmetic tattooing.

(21) Unobstructed access - A situation where an artist can wash their hands and return to the tattooing area without recontaminating their hands by handling an object such as a door knob.