Code of Maine Rules
01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY
001 - AGRICULTURE - GENERAL
Chapter 343 - FOOD PROCESSING AND MANUFACTURING
Section 001-343-8 - Personnel
Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024
A. Employees shall wear clean outer garments and maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness, and wear hair nets, headbands, caps or effective hair restraints, in processing and manufacturing areas.
B. Remove all jewelry, excepting wedding rings but including wrist watches, during periods in which food components are manipulated by hand.
C. Wash hands thoroughly in an adequate handwashing facility before starting work, after each absence from work station, and after any other time when the hands have become soiled or contaminated.
D. Maintain gloves used in food handling in an intact, clean and sanitary condition. Such gloves shall be of an impermeable material except where their usage would be inappropriate or incompatible with the work involved.