Section 25-A1002. TEMPERATURE AND TIME CONTROL - THAWING

 

1002.1Except as specified in § 1002.5, potentially hazardous food (time/temperature control for safety food) shall be thawed under refrigeration that maintains the food temperature at five degrees Celsius (5o C) (forty-one degrees Fahrenheit (41o F)) or less; or:

 

(a)Completely submerged under running water:

 

(1)At a water temperature of twenty-one degrees Celsius (21o C)  (seventy degrees Fahrenheit (70o F)) or below;

 

(2)With sufficient water velocity to agitate and float off loose  particles in an overflow;

 

(3)For a period of time that does not allow thawed portions of ready- to-eat food to rise above five degrees Celsius (5o C) (forty-one  degrees Fahrenheit (41o F)); or

 

(4)For a period of time that does not allow thawed portions of a raw  animal food requiring cooking as specified in §§ 900.1 and 900.2  to be above five degrees Celsius (5o C) (forty-one degrees  Fahrenheit (41o F)), or seven degrees Celsius (7o C) (forty-five  degrees Fahrenheit (45o F)) as specified in §§ 900.1 and 900.2, for  more than four (4) hours including the time the food is exposed to  the running water and the time needed for preparation for cooking,  or the time it takes under refrigeration to lower the food  temperature to five degrees Celsius (5o C) (forty-one degrees  Fahrenheit (41o F));

 

 (b)As a part of a cooking process if the food that is frozen is: 

 

(1)Cooked as specified in §§ 900.1, 900.2 or § 901; or

 

(2)Thawed in a microwave oven and immediately transferred to  conventional cooking equipment, with no interruption in the  process; or

 

(c)Using any procedure if a portion of frozen ready-to-eat food is thawed and  prepared for immediate service in response to an individual consumer’s  order.

 

authority

Sections 4 and 10 of An Act Relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat. 246: D.C. Official Code §§ 48-104 and 48-110 (2009 Repl.)); Section 7 of An Act Making Appropriations to provide for the expenses for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes (32 Stat.627: D.C. Official Code § 47-2834(a)(1), (a)(2), and (b) (2005 Repl.)); and Mayor’s Order 2002-103, dated June 18, 2002 and Mayor’s Order 98-139, dated August 20, 1998.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 4394 (June 6, 2003), incorporating by reference the text of Proposed Rulemaking published at 49 DCR 6184, 6247-48 (July 5, 2002); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 13690 (November 30, 2012).