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The Food Code is a model for best practices to ensure the safe handling of food in a retail setting. It has significantly reduced the risk for foodborne illness within retail establishments, thus strengthening consumer confidence in the safety of the food we eat from supermarkets and restaurants. Check back throughout the year for additional information on the 30th anniversary.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes the Food Code, a model that assists food control jurisdictions at all levels of government by providing them with a scientifically sound technical and legal basis for regulating the retail and food service segment of the industry (restaurants and grocery stores and institutions such as nursing homes). Local, state, tribal, and federal regulators use the FDA Food Code as a model to develop or update their own food safety rules and to be consistent with national food regulatory policy.

Between 1993 and 2001, the Food Code was issued in its current format, every two years. With the support of the Conference for Food Protection (CFP), FDA decided to move to a four-year interval between complete Food Code editions. During the interim period between full editions, FDA may publish a Food Code Supplement that updates, modifies, or clarifies certain provisions. The 2005 Food Code was the first full edition published on the new four-year interval, and it was followed by the Supplement to the 2005 Food Code, which was published in 2007. The 2022 Food Code is the most recent full edition published by FDA.

The Food Code is a model for safeguarding public health and ensuring food is unadulterated and honestly presented when offered to the consumer. It represents FDA's best advice for a uniform system of provisions that address the safety and protection of food offered at retail and in food service.

This model is offered for adoption by local, state, and federal governmental jurisdictions for administration by the various departments, agencies, bureaus, divisions, and other units within each jurisdiction that have been delegated compliance responsibilities for food service, retail food stores, or food vending operations. Alternatives that offer an equivalent level of public health protection to ensure that food at retail and foodservice is safe are recognized in this model.

FDA encourages its state, local, tribal, and territorial partners to adopt the latest version of the FDA Food Code. The benefits associated with complete and widespread adoption of the 2022 Food Code as statutes, codes and ordinances include:

The Minnesota Food Code, Minnesota Rules Chapter 4626, contains the minimum design, installation, construction, operation and maintenance requirements for all food establishments in Minnesota. These rules are the standards with which food establishments must comply in the handling, storing, preparation and service of food to the retail food consumer.

FDA encourages its state, local, tribal, and territorial partners to adopt the latest version of the FDA Food Code. The benefits associated with complete and widespread adoption of the 2017 Food Code as statutes, codes and ordinances include:

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Ready-to-eat, refrigerated TCS foods must be frozen or used within seven days after preparing the food or opening the commercial package. TCS foods kept refrigerated for more than 24 hours must be marked with a date to ensure the food is used within the week. Ready-to-eat, cold TCS foods must be date marked and used or frozen within 7 days. Each food establishment must train staff to mark TCS foods for use, freezing, or discard. Either the date of preparation/opening or the discard date may be used, but the system must be consistent and understandable.

TPHC refers to using time instead of temperature to limit bacterial growth or toxin formation. Food must be ready to be immediately served when removed from temperature control (41F or below, or 135F or above). Products must be marked/identified, and the label must include the time that the product has to be discarded (4 hours after being removed from temperature control).

The PIC must make sure workers know the key symptoms (diarrhea, vomiting, and jaundice) and diagnosed illnesses (norovirus, Salmonella, E. coli, Shigella, and hepatitis A) that sick workers must report to the PIC. Sick workers may not work in the establishment until they are cleared to return. Workers with vomiting and diarrhea may return when symptoms have gone away for at least 24 hours. Workers with jaundice or a diagnosed foodborne illness must be cleared by the local health department before returning to work.

Beginning March 1, 2023, King County Risk 3 Category food establishments will need access to a Certified Food Protection Manager (CFPM). The CFPM does not always need to be present. But, a copy of a valid certificate must be available during inspection. The CFPM makes sure each Person in Charge (PIC) is trained and able to control food safety in the establishment.

Note: This section does not apply to certain types of FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS with a low risk of foodborne illness due to limited food handling and low volume of food handled. These establishments traditionally include convenience stores, movie theaters, hot dog carts, coffee kiosks, cinnamon roll and pretzel stands, ice cream shops, and temporary food booths.

The key for Active Managerial Control is each manager or person in charge (PIC) is proactive at finding and preventing food safety risks, rather than only reacting to risks found by the inspector. The PIC ensures food workers are properly trained on food safety practices such as what personal health and illness symptoms to report to the PIC, monitoring food temperatures, properly washing hands, and preventing cross contamination.

The name for foods that require temperature control will be changing from Potentially Hazardous Food (PHF) to Time/Temperature Control for Safety (TCS) food. There is no change to the foods that need to be kept hot or cold. TCS foods include meat, poultry, cooked starches, sliced melons, sprouts, fresh herb and garlic-in-oil mixtures, dairy products, cut leafy greens, cut tomatoes, and cooked produce.

Scrambled eggs for more than one person, ground beef, and sausage must be cooked to 158F to be considered fully cooked. Food establishments that want to continue cooking to 155F will be required to show the cooking process holds the ground meat at 155F for at least 17 seconds as part of an approved plan.

Food establishments will have the option to allow pet dogs in specific situations. Pet dogs may be indoors if the business does not prepare food. Pet dogs may be allowed in outdoor dining areas with an approved plan. Speak to your food inspector for more details.

Note: Working service animals (dog or miniature horse) that are trained to do tasks for a person with a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other disability are not considered pets and are allowed in food establishments.

Food workers must write both the first and last dates of service on shellstock tags and keep them in an organized system for at least 90 days after the shellfish are sold. Shellstock include in-shell oysters, mussels, and clams.

The Food Code is neither federal law nor regulation. Jurisdictions can choose to adopt all or parts of the Food Code to regulate food establishments within their jurisdictions. Most commonly, the Food Code is adopted either:

Some jurisdictions have automatic adoption. This means that each time a new edition of the Food Code is released, it is automatically adopted by the jurisdiction. The FDA issues a new edition of the Food Code every 4 years. Supplementals are released in the intervening 2 years.

A single adoption process across jurisdictions is impossible due to varying administrative procedures and rulemaking processes for each jurisdiction. Our Food Code Adoption Toolkit outlines a path to adoption and provides relevant resources at each step.

Food Code adoption has big implications for all members of your community, especially the retail food industry and regulatory staff. Prepare to address questions, concerns, and resistance to specific Food Code provisions. You may wish to draft an economic impact statement or share some of the scientific basis for Food Code provisions.

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