Minnesota Administrative Rules

4626.0960 STORAGE PROHIBITIONS. 4-903.12

A.

Except as specified in item B, food, cleaned and sanitized equipment, utensils, laundered linens, or single-service and single-use articles must not be stored:

(1)

in locker rooms;

(2)

in toilet rooms;

(3)

in garbage rooms;

(4)

in mechanical rooms;

(5)

under sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips;

(6)

under leaking water lines including leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads or under lines on which water has condensed;

(7)

under open stairwells; or

(8)

under other sources of contamination.

B.

Laundered linens and single-service and single-use articles that are packaged or in a facility such as a cabinet may be stored in a locker room.

C.

If a mechanical clothes washer and dryer is provided, it must be located so that the washer and dryer is protected from contamination and is located only in an area where there is no exposed food, clean equipment, utensils, or linens, or unwrapped single-service or single-use articles.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 31.101; 31.11; 144.05; 144.07; 144.08; 144.12; 157.011

History:

23 SR 519; 43 SR 295

Published Electronically:

January 2, 2019