3717-1-03.1(H) Food: sources, specifications, and original containers

Temperature - specifications for receiving.

(1)

Refrigerated, time/temperature controlled for safety food is to be received at a temperature of forty-one degrees Fahrenheit (five degrees Celsius) or below. This provision does not apply to raw eggs which are to be received in refrigerated equipment that maintains an ambient air temperature of forty-five degrees Fahrenheit (seven degrees Celsius) or less, milk which may be received at an internal temperature of not more than forty-five degrees Fahrenheit (seven degrees Celsius), or to any other time/temperature controlled for safety food for which another temperature is specified by law governing its distribution, such as red meat and molluscan shellfish.

(2)

Time/temperature controlled for safety food that is cooked to a temperature and for a time specified under paragraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of rule 3717-1-03.3 of the Administrative Code and received hot is to be received at a temperature of one hundred thirty-five degrees Fahrenheit (fifty-seven degrees Celsius) or above.

(3)

A food that is labeled frozen and shipped frozen by a food processing plant is to be received frozen.

(4)

Upon receipt, time/temperature controlled for safety food is to be free of evidence of previous temperature abuse.