It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of the
processing, sale, distribution, storage or delivery of frozen foods in the
Borough of Fort Lee without first having obtained, from the Board, a license
to do so.
In every frozen food processing plant, locker plant, storage plant,
distribution store or plant or any type of frozen food establishment or retail
vehicle where frozen food is handled or held, there shall be a complete refrigeration
system with adequate capacity and accurate and reliable controls for automatic
maintenance of uniform temperature under extreme conditions of outside temperatures
and under peak load conditions in normal operation of the plant, the following
temperatures shall prevail:
A. Refrigeration rooms: 45º F. or below.
B. Sharp freeze room, sharp freezing compartments: 0º
F. or below.
C. Locker rooms, locker compartments and storage rooms:
a temperature not to exceed 0º F., with a tolerance of 5º F. plus,
shall be maintained.
D. Display cases and counters: a temperature not to exceed
0º F. shall be maintained.
E. Cutting and preparation room: all articles of food of
a decomposable nature, such as meat and seafood, must be kept sufficiently
cooled or chilled to prevent spoiling either by cooling the cutting and preparation
room or the equipment in which it is held prior to freezing.
F. Vehicles in which frozen foods are transported either
for moving, distributing or sale, shall either be mechanically refrigerated
or cooled by the cold holding plate system. Temperatures shall be no higher
than 0º F. with a tolerance of 10º F. when frozen food is being
taken out or placed in vehicle.
Only food of Grade "A" quality shall be processed as frozen food.
Nothing herein contained shall require the interior of vehicles used
to transport frozen foods from being continuously lighted, drained, ventilated,
or to have adequate plumbing.