Section 25-A2002. METHODS - HOT WATER AND CHEMICAL

 

2002.1After being cleaned, equipment, food-contact surfaces and utensils shall be sanitized in:

 

(a)Hot water manual operations by immersion for at least thirty (30) seconds  as specified in § 1810; P or

 

(b)Hot water mechanical operations by being cycled through equipment that  is set up as specified in §§ 1804, 1811, and 1812 and achieving a utensil  surface temperature of seventy-one degrees Celsius (71o C) (one hundred  and sixty degrees Fahrenheit (160o F)) as measured by an irreversible  registering temperature indicator. P

 

2002.2After being cleaned, equipment food-contact surfaces and utensils shall be sanitized in chemical manual or mechanical operations, including the application of sanitizing chemicals by immersion, manual swabbing, brushing, or pressure spraying methods, using a solution as specified in § 1813 by providing: 

 

(a)Except as specified in § 2002.2(b), a contact time of at least ten (10)  seconds for a chlorine solution specified in § 1813.2; P

 

(b)A contact time of at least seven (7) seconds for a chlorine solution of fifty  micrograms per liter (50 mg/L) that has a pH of ten (10) or less and a  temperature of at least thirty -eight degrees Celsius (38o C) (one hundred  degrees Fahrenheit (100o F), or a pH of eight (8) or less and a temperature  of at least twenty-four degrees Celsius (24o C) (seventy-five degrees  Fahrenheit (75o F)); P 

 

(c)A contact time of at least thirty (30) seconds for other chemical sanitizing  solutions; P or

 

(d)A contact time used in relationship with a combination of temperature,  concentration, and pH that, when evaluated for efficacy, yields  “sanitization”, as defined in this Code. P 

 

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 98-139, dated August 20, 1998, and Mayor’s Order 2002-103, dated June 18, 2002.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 4394 (June 6, 2003), incorporating by reference the text of Proposed Rulemaking published at 49 DCR 6184, 6289-90 (July 5, 2002); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 13690 (November 30, 2012).