N.J. Admin. Code § 8:13-2.20

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 12, June 17, 2024

Section 8:13-2.20 - Cleaning and sanitizing treatment of equipment

(a) Adequate facilities shall be provided for the proper washing, cleaning, and sanitizing treatment. All floors, walls, tanks, equipment and utensils shall be maintained in a clean condition. All clams and seawater contact surfaces shall be cleaned and sanitized, as defined under 8:21-13.6(c) and (d), at the frequencies listed as follows:

1. Process tanks and seawater distribution piping shall be drained of seawater after each process and tanks and racks shall be cleaned and sanitized within three hours after a process batch is removed from the system and rinsed of sanitizing residuals before another depuration process begins.

2. The seawater reservoir(s) used to hold incoming process seawater shall be drained and flushed after each process batch and cleaned and sanitized at least once a week.

3. Clam processing containers shall be cleaned and sanitized within three hours after removal of clams.

4. The ultraviolet or quartz tubes and tube chamber of the UV unit(s) shall be cleaned within three hours after each depuration process.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:13-2.20

Amended by R.2000 d.455, effective 11/6/2000.
See: 32 New Jersey Register 416(a), 32 New Jersey Register 3982(b).
In (a), rewrote the introductory paragraph.