New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Chapter I - State Sanitary Code
Part 14 - Food Service Establishments
Subpart 14-4 - Mobile Food Service Establishments And Pushcarts
Equipment and Utensils
Section 14-4.103 - Definitions relating to equipment and utensils

(a) Approved means that under conditions of use the State Commissioner of Health, based on evaluation of the physical characteristics and usual usages, has determined it to be in conformance with good public health practices.

(b) Easily cleanable means readily accessible and of material and finish fabricated so that residues may be completely removed by normal cleaning methods.

(c) Equipment is all stoves, ranges, hoods, tables, counters, refrigerators, sinks and similar items other than utensils, used in the operation of a mobile food establishment.

(d) Food-contact surfaces are the surfaces of equipment, utensils, kitchenware and tableware which are normally contacted by food or which food may contact and drain back into food or onto food-contact surfaces.

(e) Food-grade when used as a description means that the material, object, equipment or item is nontoxic, will not contribute any contaminant to food through migration or its own deterioration under usual conditions of regular use, and is constructed or fabricated to perform its intended function in an acceptable manner.

(f) Kitchenware is all multi-use utensils other than tableware used in the storage, preparation, transfer, conveyance or service of food.

(g) Nonfood-contact surfaces are surfaces other than food-contact surfaces.

(h) Single-service articles are items intended by the manufacturer to be discarded after using item once for eating or drinking.

(i) Tableware is all multi-use eating and drinking utensils.

(j) Utensil is any tableware and kitchenware used in the storage, preparation, transfer or service of food.