Section 410 IAC 7-24-303 - Cleaning and sanitizing food contact surfacesAuthority: IC 16-42-5-5
Affected: IC 16-42-5
Sec. 303.
(a) Utensils and food-contact surfaces of equipment shall be sanitized immediately after cleaning.(b) After being cleaned, equipment food-contact surfaces and utensils shall be sanitized in: (1) hot water manual operations by immersion for at least thirty (30) seconds as specified under section 274 of this rule;(2) hot water mechanical operations by being cycled through equipment that is set up as specified under section 283, 285, or 286 of this rule and achieving a utensil surface temperature of one hundred sixty (160) degrees Fahrenheit as measured by an irreversible registering temperature indicator; or(3) chemical manual or mechanical operations, including the application of sanitizing chemicals by immersion, manual swabbing, brushing, or pressure spraying methods, using a solution as specified under section 294 of this rule by providing: (A) except as specified under clause (B), an exposure time of at least ten (10) seconds for a chlorine solution specified under section 294(a)(1) of this rule;(B) an exposure time of at least seven (7) seconds for a chlorine solution of fifty (50) ppm that has a pH of 10 or less and a temperature of at least one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit or a pH of 8 or less and a temperature of at least seventy five (75) degrees Fahrenheit;(C) an exposure time of at least thirty (30) seconds for other chemical sanitizing solutions; or(D) an exposure time used in relationship with a combination of temperature, concentration, and pH that, when evaluated for efficacy, yields sanitization as defined in section 82 of this rule.(c) For purposes of this section, a violation of subsection (a) or (b) is a critical item.Indiana State Department of Health; 410 IAC 7-24-303; filed Oct 13, 2004, 12:30 p.m.: 28 IR 882; readopted filed Jul 15, 2010, 12:12 p.m.: 20100728-IR-410100261RFAReadopted filed 11/10/2016, 8:45 a.m.: 20161207-IR-410160371RFAReadopted filed 9/15/2022, 10:01 a.m.: 20221012-IR-410220206RFA