New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
Chapter VI - Food Control
Subchapter E - Retail Food Stores (Article 19 Agriculture and Markets Law)
Part 271 - Retail Food Store Sanitation Regulations
Subpart 271-7 - Construction and Maintenance of Physical Facilities
Section 271-7.21 - Storage of poisonous toxic materials
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
Poisonous or toxic materials necessary for the maintenance of the establishment consist of the following two categories:
(a) insecticides and rodenticides; and
(b) detergents, sanitizers, related cleaning or drying agents, and caustics, acids, polishes and other chemicals.
Materials in each of these two categories shall be stored and located to be physically separated from each other; shall be stored in cabinets or in similar physically separated compartments or facilities used for no other purpose; and, to preclude potential contamination, shall not be stored above or intermingled with food, food equipment, utensils or single-service articles, except that this latter requirement does not prohibit the convenient availability of detergent sanitizers or sanitizers at warewashing facilities.
