OAR 603-025-0010
Definitions
(1)
“Bulk Food” means unpackaged or unwrapped, processed or unprocessed food in aggregate containers from which quantities desired by the consumer are withdrawn, but does not include fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, nuts in the shell, salad bar ingredients or potentially hazardous foods.(2)
“Corrosion-Resistant Materials” means those materials that maintain acceptable sanitary surface characteristics under prolonged influence of the food to be contacted, the normal use of cleaning compounds and sanitizing solutions, and other conditions of usage.(3)
“Display Area” means a location, including physical facilities and equipment, where bulk food is offered for customer self-service.(4)
“Distressed Merchandise” means any food which has had the label lost or destroyed, or which has been subjected to possible damage due to accident, fire, flood, adverse weather, or to any other similar cause, and which may have been thereby rendered unsafe or unsuitable for human or animal consumption or use.(5)
“Easily Cleanable” means readily accessible and of such material, fabrication and finish that residues may be effectively removed by normal cleaning methods.(6)
“Employee” means any person working in a food establishment.(7)
“Equipment” means all display cases, storage cases, tables, counters, shelving, refrigerators, sinks, food processing preparation and packaging equipment, and any other items used in the operation of a food establishment.(8)
“Farm mix-type facility” means an establishment that is a farm and that engages in both activities that are exempt from registration under section 415 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and activities that require the establishment to be registered.(9)
“Food Source” means food shall be in a sound condition and safe for human consumption and shall be produced in compliance with applicable laws relating to food safety.(10)
“Food-Contact Surfaces” means those surfaces of equipment and utensils with which food normally comes into contact, and those surfaces from which food may drain, drip, or splash back onto surfaces normally in contact with food.(11)
“Food Processing” means the cooking, baking, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, cutting, freezing or otherwise manufacturing a food or changing the physical characteristics of a food, and the packaging, canning or otherwise enclosing of such food in a container, but does not mean the sorting, cleaning or water-rinsing of a food.(12)
“Food Retailing” or “Operating a Retail Food Store” means the preparing, packaging, storing, handling or displaying of food for sale at retail to the consumer or user, and may include produce trimming, processed meat slicing, cheese slicing, preparing gutted and filleted fish, and providing retail customer services to change the form of food such as juice squeezing or peanut grinding (if more than one of these customer services is made available, the activities shall then be considered food processing rather than food retailing).(13)
“Food Service Establishment” means any place where food is prepared and intended for individual portion service, and includes the site at which individual portions are provided, whether consumption is on or off the premises and whether or not there is a charge for the food, and includes a delicatessen that offer prepared foods in individual service portions, but does not include a private home where food is prepared or served for individual family consumption, a retail food store, a food vending machine location or a supply vehicle.(14)
“Food Storage Warehouse” means any building or place where food is stored as a commercial venture or business, or stored in connection with or as a part of a commercial venture or business, but does not include a home, restaurant, rooming house, hotel or similar place where food is stored to be used or consumed by the owner or served to employees, customers, or guests, nor an establishment licensed by the department under other laws.(15)
“Hazardous Substance” means a substance or mixture of substances which is toxic, corrosive, an irritant, flammable, which generates pressure through heat, decomposition or other means, which has been designated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a strong sensitizer or a radioactive material, or which may cause substantial personal injury or substantial illness during or as a proximate result of any reasonable foreseeable handling or use, including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children.(16)
“Hermetically Sealed Container” means a container which is designed and intended to be secure against the entry of microorganisms and to maintain the commercial sterility of its contents after processing.(17)
“Kitchenware” means all multi-use utensils other than tableware.(18)
“Non-Salvageable Merchandise” means distressed merchandise which cannot be safely or practically reconditioned.(19)
“Operator” means any person having the direct and primary responsibility for the construction, maintenance and operation of a food establishment.(20)
“Packaged” means bottled, canned, cartoned, bagged or completely wrapped.(21)
“Physical Facilities” means the structure and interior surfaces of a food establishment including accessories such as soap and towel dispensers and attachments such as light fixtures and heating or air conditioning system vents.(22)
“Plant” means the building or buildings or parts thereof, used for or in connection with the manufacturing, packaging, storing, labeling or holding of food for humans, dogs or cats.(23)
“Potentially Hazardous Food” means any food that consists whole or in part of milk or milk products, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, edible crustacia or other ingredients, including synthetic ingredients, in a form capable of supporting rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms, but does not include food which has a pH level of 4.6 or below or a water activity (Aw) value of 0.85 or less.(24)
“Product Module” means a food-contact container (multi-use or single-service) designed for customer self-service of bulk food by either direct or indirect means.(25)
“Reconditioning” means any appropriate process or procedure by which distressed merchandise can be brought into compliance with all federal or state requirements so as to make it suitable for consumption or for use as human or animal feed.(26)
“Retail Fruit and Vegetable Stand” means any place where fresh fruits or vegetables are offered for sale at retail to the user or consumer.(27)
“Safe Materials” means articles manufactured from or composed of materials that may not reasonably be expected to result, directly or indirectly, in their becoming a component or otherwise affecting the characteristics of any food, if they are food additives or color additives (as defined in Section 201(s) or (t) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act), are used in conformity with the federal regulations adopted under Section 409 or 706 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and if they are not food additives or color additives, are used in conformity with other applicable regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.(28)
“Safe Temperatures” as applied to potentially hazardous food, means air temperatures of 41°F or below and 130°F or above.(29)
“Salvage Dealer” or “Salvage Distributor” means any person who is engaged in selling or distributing salvaged merchandise.(30)
“Salvage Processing Facility” means an establishment engaged in the business of reconditioning distressed merchandise.(31)
“Salvage Processor” means any person who operates a salvage processing facility.(32)
“Salvaged Merchandise” means reconditioned distressed merchandise, and “salvageable merchandise” means distressed merchandise capable of being reconditioned.(33)
“Sanitize” or “Sanitization” means effective bactericidal treatment of physically clean surfaces of equipment and utensils by a process which has been approved by the department as being effective in reducing microorganisms, including pathogens, to a safe level.(34)
“Sealed” means free of cracks or other openings that permit the entry or passage of moisture.(35)
“Servicing Area” means a designated location equipped for cleaning, sanitizing, drying, refilling product modules, or preparing bulk food.(36)
“Single-Service Articles” means items used by the retailer or consumer such as cups, containers, lids, packaging materials, bags and similar articles, intended for contact with food and designed for one-time use, but does not include single use articles, such as No. 10 cans, aluminum pie pans, bread wrappers and similar articles, into which food has been packaged by the manufacturer.(37)
“Supplier” means any person who transfers distressed merchandise to a salvage processor.(38)
“Tableware” means multi-use eating and drinking utensils.(39)
“Transportation” means the movement of food, the delivery of food from one location to another location while under the control of an operator.(40)
“Utensil” means any food-contact implement used in the storage, preparation, transportation, or dispensing of food.(41)
“Vehicle” means any truck, trailer, car, bus, railcar, aircraft, boat, ship or barge by which food is transported from one location to another.(42)
“Warewashing” means the cleaning and sanitizing of food-contact surfaces of equipment and utensils.(43)
“Wholesome” means food found in sound condition, clean, free from adulteration and otherwise suitable for human consumption.
Source:
Rule 603-025-0010 — Definitions, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=603-025-0010.