Raw animal foods that are cooked using a noncontinuous cooking process must be:
(1) Subject to an initial heating process that is no longer than sixty minutes in duration;
(2) Immediately after initial heating, cooled according to the time and temperature parameters specified for cooked,
time/temperature control for safety food under WAC
246-215-03515(1);
(3) After cooling, held frozen or cold, as specified for
time/temperature control for safety food under WAC
246-215-03525 (1)(b);
(4) Prior to sale or service, cooked using a process that heats all parts of the
food to a temperature and time specified under WAC
246-215-03400 (1) through (3);
(5) Cooled according to the time and temperature parameters specified for cooked
time/temperature control for safety food under WAC
246-215-03515(1) if not either hot held as specified under WAC
246-215-03525(1), served immediately, or held using time as a public health control as specified under WAC
246-215-03530 after complete cooking;
(6) Prepared and stored according to written procedures that:
(a) Have obtained prior approval from the regulatory authority;
(b) Are maintained in the food establishment and are available to the regulatory authority upon request;
(c) Describe how the requirements specified under subsections (1) through (5) of this section are to be monitored, documented and the corrective actions to be taken if the requirements are not met;
(d) Describe how the foods, after initial heating, but prior to complete cooking, are to be marked or otherwise identified as foods that must be cooked as specified under subsection (4) of this section prior to being offered for sale or service; and
(e) Describe how the
foods, after initial heating but prior to cooking as specified under subsection (4) of this section, are to be separated from
ready-to-eat foods as specified under WAC
246-215-03306(1).
[Statutory Authority: RCW
43.20.050 and
43.20.145. WSR 21-01-122, § 246-215-03415, filed 12/15/20, effective 3/1/22; WSR 13-03-109, § 246-215-03415, filed 1/17/13, effective 5/1/13.]