Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 144 - Health Department
Chapter 4626 - FOOD CODE; FOOD MANAGERS
PROTECTING CLEAN ITEMS
Part 4626.0960 - STORAGE PROHIBITIONS. 4-903.12

Universal Citation: MN Rules 4626.0960

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024

A. Except as specified in item B, food, cleaned and sanitized equipment, utensils, laundered linens, or single-service and single-use articles must not be stored:

(1) in locker rooms;

(2) in toilet rooms;

(3) in garbage rooms;

(4) in mechanical rooms;

(5) under sewer lines that is are not shielded to intercept potential drips;

(6) under leaking water lines including a leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads or under lines on which water has condensed;

(7) under open stairwells; or

(8) under other sources of contamination.

B. Laundered linens and single-service and single-use articles that are packaged or in a facility such as a cabinet may be stored in a locker room.

C. If a mechanical clothes washer and dryer is provided, it must be located so that the washer and dryer is protected from contamination and is located only in an area where there is no exposed food, clean equipment, utensils, or linens, or unwrapped single-service or single-use articles.

Statutory Authority: MS s 31.101; 31.11; 144.05; 144.08; 144.12; 157.011

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