16 Del. Admin. Code § 4457-5.0
"Adequate" shall mean that which is needed to accomplish the intended purpose in keeping with good public health practice.
"Approved" shall mean acceptable to the Division based on a determination of conformity with principles, practices, and recognized standards that protect public health.
"Contamination" shall mean the condition whereby ice or the water used in its manufacture has been or may have been exposed to or may have come in contact with foreign or injurious substances or matter including but not limited to microorganisms.
"Coring" shall mean the process of pumping off or removing that portion of a block of ice which has not solidified during the freezing process.
"Critical Control Point" shall mean a point or procedure in a specific food system where loss of control may result in an unacceptable health risk.
"Easily Cleanable" shall mean a characteristic of a surface that allows effective removal of soil by normal cleaning methods; is dependent on the material, design, construction, and installation of the surface; and varies with the likelihood of the surface's role in introducing pathogenic or toxigenic agents or other contaminants into food based on the surface's approved placement, purpose, and use.
"Employee" shall mean any person working in an ice plant who transports ice or ice containers, who engages in ice manufacture, processing, packaging, storage or distribution, or who comes into contact with any ice equipment.
"Food Contact Surfaces" shall mean a surface of equipment or a utensil with which food normally comes into contact; or a surface of equipment or a utensil from which food may drain, drip, or splash into a food, or onto a surface normally in contact with food.
"Hazardous Chemical" shall mean any element, chemical, compound or mixture of elements and/or compounds which is a physical hazard or health hazard.
"Ice" shall mean the product, in any form, obtained as a result of freezing water by mechanical or artificial means.
"Ice Plant" shall mean any commercial establishment, together with the necessary appurtenances in which ice is manufactured, or processed and stored, packaged, or distributed and offered for sale for human consumption.
"Person" shall mean an individual, or a firm, partnership, company, corporation trustee, association, other business organizations or any public or private entity.
"Potable Water" shall mean water which is in compliance with all of the required applicable drinking water regulations.
"Processing" shall mean the act or acts of grinding, crushing, flaking, cubing or any other operation which changes the physical characteristics of ice.
"Product" shall mean any and all areas where the product, ingredients, or packaging materials are handled or stored, including any area related to the manufacturing, packaging, handling, and storage of ice intended for sale for human consumption.
"Regulatory Authority" shall mean the official enforcement agency responsible for ice plant sanitation.
"Sanitization" shall mean the application of cumulative heat or chemicals on cleaned food contact surfaces that, when evaluated for efficacy, is sufficient to yield a reduction of 5 logs, which is equal to a 99.999% reduction, of representative disease microorganisms of public health importance.
"Single-service Article" shall mean tableware, carry-out utensils, and other items such as bags, containers, placemats, stirrers, straws, toothpicks, and wrappers that are designed and constructed for one time, one person use after which they are intended for discard.
"Single-use Article" shall mean utensils and bulk food containers designed and constructed to be used once and discarded, that includes items such as wax paper, butcher paper, plastic wrap, formed aluminum food containers, jars, plastic tubs or buckets, bread wrappers, pickle barrels, ketchup bottles, and number 10 cans which do not meet the materials, durability, strength, and cleanability specifications in State of Delaware Food Code for multiuse utensils.
"Treatment" shall mean a mechanism which demonstrated to the satisfaction of the regulatory authority will lead to a reduction in the level of any contaminant.
"Utensil" shall mean a food contact surface implement or container used in the storage, preparation, transportation, dispensing, sale, or service of food, such as kitchenware or tableware that is multiuse, single-service, or single-use; gloves used in contact with food; temperature sensing probes of food temperature measuring devices; and probe-type price or identification tags used in contact with food.
16 Del. Admin. Code § 4457-5.0