Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health
Chapter 257 - Food Establishments
Subchapter 5 - Food
Section 310:257-5-23 - Packaged and unpackaged food-separation, packaging, and segregation
Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 310:257-5-23
Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a) Food shall be protected from cross contamination by:
(1) Except as specified in
(c) of this Section, separating raw animal foods during storage, preparation,
holding, and display from:
(A) Raw
ready-to-eat food including other raw animal food such as fish for sushi or
molluscan shellfish, or other raw ready-to-eat food such as fruits and
vegetables; and
(B) Cooked
ready-to-eat food; and
(C) Fruits
and vegetables before they are washed.
(2) Except when combined as ingredients,
separating types of raw animal foods from each other such as beef, fish, lamb,
pork, and poultry during storage, preparation, holding, and display by:
(A) Using separate equipment for each type;
or
(B) Arranging each type of food
in equipment so that cross contamination of one type with another is prevented;
and
(C) Preparing each type of food
at different times or in separate areas;
(3) Cleaning equipment and utensils as
specified under OAC
310:257-7-83(a)
and sanitizing as specified under OAC
310:257-7-95;
(4) Except as specified in (b) of this
Section, storing the food in packages, covered containers, or
wrappings;
(5) Cleaning
hermetically sealed containers of food of visible soil before
opening;
(6) Protecting food
containers that are received packaged together in a case or overwrap from cuts
when the case or overwrap is opened;
(7) Storing damaged, spoiled, or recalled
food being held in the food establishment as specified under OAC
310:257-11-38;
and
(8) Separating fruits and
vegetables, before they are washed as specified under OAC
310:257-5-27
from ready-to-eat food.
(b) Paragraph (a)(4) of this Section does not apply to:
(1) Whole, uncut, raw fruits and
vegetables and nuts in the shell, that require peeling or hulling before
consumption;
(2) Primal cuts,
quarters, or sides of raw meat or slab bacon that are hung on clean, sanitized
hooks or placed on clean, sanitized racks;
(3) Whole, uncut, processed meats such as
country hams, and smoked or cured sausages that are placed on clean, sanitized
racks;
(4) Food being cooled as
specified under OAC
310:257-5-58(b)(2);
or
(5)
Shellstock.
(c) Frozen, commercially processed and packaged raw animal food may be stored or displayed with or above frozen, commercially processed and packaged, ready-to-eat food.
Added at 23 Ok Reg 2358, eff 6-25-06; Amended at 28 Ok Reg 2289, eff 11-1-11
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