Ariz. Admin. Code § 3-10-1106

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section R3-10-1106 - Buildings; Suitability; Drainage

A. Buildings shall be suitable in size, construction, and design to facilitate maintenance and sanitary operations for covered activities to reduce the potential for contamination with known or reasonably foreseeable hazards of covered produce or food contact surfaces. Buildings shall:

1. Provide sufficient space for placement of equipment and storage of materials;

2. Permit proper precautions to be taken to reduce the potential for contamination with known or reasonably foreseeable hazards of covered produce, food contact surfaces, or packing materials; and

3. Be designed to reduce the potential for contamination, including separating operations in which contamination is likely to occur by location, time, partition, enclosed systems or other methods.

B. The farm shall provide adequate drainage in all areas where normal operations release or discharge water or other liquid waste on the ground or floor of the building.

C. The farm shall implement measures to prevent contamination of its covered produce and food contact surfaces, as appropriate, in its buildings, considering the potential for contamination through both:

1. Floors, walls, ceilings, fixtures, ducts, or pipes; and

2. Drip or condensate.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R3-10-1106

Adopted by final exempt rulemaking at 26 A.A.R. 682, effective 8/20/2019.