Ariz. Admin. Code § R3-10-1103 - Equipment and Tools; Cleaning and Maintenance

A. The farm shall use equipment and tools that are of adequate design, construction, and workmanship to enable them to be adequately cleaned and properly maintained.

B. Equipment and tools shall be:

1. Installed and maintained as to facilitate cleaning of the equipment and of all adjacent spaces;

2. Stored and maintained to protect covered produce from being contaminated with known or reasonably foreseeable hazards; and

3. Stored and maintained to prevent the equipment and tools from attracting and harboring pests.

C. Seams on food contact surfaces of equipment and tools shall be either smoothly bonded, or maintained to minimize accumulation of dirt, filth, food particles, and organic material and thus minimize the opportunity for harborage or growth of undesirable microorganisms.

D. The farm shall inspect, maintain, and clean and, when necessary and appropriate, sanitize all food contact surfaces of equipment and tools used in covered activities as frequently as reasonably necessary to protect against contamination of covered produce.

E. The farm shall maintain and clean all non-food-contact surfaces of equipment and tools subject to this article used during harvesting, packing, and holding as frequently as reasonably necessary to protect against contamination of covered produce.

F. If the farm uses equipment such as pallets, forklifts, tractors, and vehicles in a manner that the equipment is intended to, or likely to, contact covered produce, it shall do so in a manner that minimizes the potential for contamination with known or reasonably foreseeable hazards of covered produce or food contact surfaces.

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Ariz. Admin. Code § R3-10-1103

Adopted by final exempt rulemaking at 26 A.A.R. 682, effective 8/20/2019.