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ii. Onto a surface normally in contact
with food.
"Food employee" means an individual working with
unpackaged food, food equipment or utensils, or
food-contact surfaces.
"Food processing plant" means a commercial
operation that manufactures, packages, labels, or
stores food for human consumption and does not
provide food directly to a consumer. The term does
not include a retail food establishment.
"Game animal" means an animal, the products of
which are food, that is not classified as poultry, fish,
cattle, sheep, swine, goat, horse or equine. The term
includes mammals such as reindeer, elk, deer,
antelope, water buffalo, bison, rabbit, squirrel,
opossum, raccoon, nutria, or muskrat, and non-
aquatic reptiles such as land snakes. The term
excludes ratites such as ostrich, emu, and rhea.
"Group residence" means a private or public
housing corporation or institutional facility that
provides living quarters and meals. The term includes
a domicile for unrelated persons such as a retirement
home or a long-term health care facility.
"Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)
plan" means a written document that delineates the
formal procedures for following the HACCP principles
(July, 2005) incorporated herein by reference, as
amended and supplemented, and available through
the Division of Cooperative Programs (HFS-625),
Office of Compliance, Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration,
5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740,
telephone (301) 436-2350 and website address
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/hret2toc.html.
"Hazard" means a biological, chemical, or physical
property that may cause an unacceptable consumer
health risk.
"Health authority" means the duly licensed agent
of the local board of health and/or State Department
of Health and Senior Services to act in the
enforcement of its ordinances and sanitary laws of
the State.
"Hermetically sealed container" means a
container that is designed and intended to be secure
against the entry of microorganisms and, in the case
of low acid canned foods, to maintain the commercial
sterility of its contents after processing.
"Highly susceptible population" means a group of
persons who are more likely than other populations
to experience foodborne disease because they are
immunocompromised or older adults and in a facility
that provides health care or assisted living services,
such as a hospital or nursing home; or preschool age
children in a facility that provides custodial care, such
as a day care center.
"Imminent health hazard" means a significant
threat or danger to health that is considered to exist
when there is evidence sufficient to show that a
product, practice, circumstance, or event creates a
situation that requires immediate correction or
cessation of operation to prevent injury based on the
number of potential injuries, and the nature,
severity, and duration of the anticipated injury.
"Injected" means manipulating a meat so that
infectious or toxigenic microorganisms may be
introduced from its surface to its interior through
tenderizing with deep penetration or injecting the
meat such as with juices which may be referred to as
"injecting," "pinning," or "stitch pumping."
"Juice," when used in the context of food safety,
means the aqueous liquid expressed or extracted
from one or more fruits or vegetables, purees of the
edible portions of one or more fruits or vegetables, or
any concentrate of such liquid or puree. This
definition does not apply to standards of identity.
"Kitchenware" means food preparation and storage
utensils.
"Law" means applicable local, state, and Federal
statutes, regulations, and ordinances.
"Linens" means fabric items such as cloth hampers,
cloth napkins, tablecloths, wiping cloths, and work
garments including cloth gloves.
"Meat" means the flesh of animals used as food
including the dressed flesh of cattle, swine, sheep, or
goats and other edible animals, except fish and
poultry.
"Misbranded"
means the definition as stated in
N.J.S.A. 24:5-16 and 24:5-17.
"mg/L" means milligrams per liter, which is the
metric equivalent of parts per million (ppm).
"Mobile retail food establishment" means any
movable restaurant, truck, van, trailer, cart, bicycle,
watercraft, or other movable unit including hand
carried, portable containers in or on which food or
beverage is transported, stored, or prepared for retail
sale or given away at temporary locations.
"Molluscan shellfish" means any edible species of
fresh or frozen oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops
or edible portions thereof, except when the scallop
product consists only of the shucked abductor
muscle.
8:24– 1.5 “Food-contact surface”