Section 25-A500. FOOD CONTAMINATION PREVENTION - EATING, DRINKING, OR USING TOBACCO

 

500.1Persons working in direct contact with food, clean equipment and utensils, and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles shall not:

 

(a)Eat, drink, chew gum, or use any form of tobacco, except in designated  areas where food, clean equipment and utensils, and unwrapped single  service and single-use articles are not exposed, and where equipment or  utensils are not washed or stored; or

 

(b)Drink, except from a closed beverage container if the container is handled  to prevent contamination of the employee’s hands or the container, where  food, clean equipment and utensils, linens, and unwrapped single-service  and single-use articles are exposed, and where equipment or utensils are  washed or stored.

 

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, 6221 (July 5, 2002); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 13690 (November 30, 2012).