Minnesota Administrative Rules

4626.0615 4-204.111 VENDING MACHINES; AUTOMATIC SHUTOFF.*

A.

A machine vending potentially hazardous food shall have an automatic control that prevents the machine from vending food:

(1)

if there is a power failure, mechanical failure, or other condition that results in an internal machine temperature that cannot maintain food temperatures specified in parts 4626.0130 to 4626.0420; and

(2)

if a condition specified in subitem (1) occurs, until the machine is serviced and restocked with food that has been maintained at temperatures specified in parts 4626.0130 to 4626.0420.

B.

The temperature specified for activation of the automatic shutoff within a machine vending potentially hazardous food may deviate from the temperature and for a time as follows:

(1)

in a refrigerated vending machine, at an ambient temperature of 7 degrees C (45 degrees F) or more, for no more than 30 minutes immediately after the machine is filled, serviced, or restocked; or

(2)

in a hot holding vending machine, at an ambient temperature of less than 60 degrees C (140 degrees F), for no more than 120 minutes after the machine is filled, serviced, or restocked.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 31.101; 31.11; 144.05; 144.08; 144.12; 157.011

History:

23 SR 519

Published Electronically:

October 11, 2007