3717-1-04.3(A) Equipment, utensils, and linens: location and installation

Equipment, clothes washers and dryers, and storage cabinets - contamination prevention by properly locating.

(1)

Equipment, a cabinet used for the storage of food, or a cabinet that is used to store cleaned and sanitized equipment, utensils, laundered linens, single-service articles, or single-use articles are not to be located:

(a)

In toilet rooms;

(b)

In garbage rooms;

(c)

In mechanical rooms;

(d)

Under sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips;

(e)

Under leaking water lines including leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads or under lines on which water has condensed;

(f)

Under open stairwells;

(g)

In locker rooms unless it is a storage cabinet used only for linens, single-service articles, or single-use articles; or

(h)

Under other sources of contamination.

(2)

If a mechanical clothes washer or dryer is provided, it is to be located so that the washer or dryer is protected from contamination and located where there is no exposed food; clean equipment, utensils, or linens; or unwrapped single-service or single-use articles.