As used in this article, the term “food” shall include all articles used by man for food, drink, flavoring, confectionery and condiment, whether simple, mixed or compounded.
(1984 Code, sec. 10-56; 1998 Code, sec. 6.301)
(a)
The definitions, the inspection of food service establishments, the issuance, suspension and revocation of permits to operate food service establishments, the prohibiting of the sale of adulterated or misbranded food or drink, and the enforcement thereof shall be regulated in accordance with the 1976 edition of the United States Public Health Service Food Service Sanitation Manual, three (3) copies of which shall be on file in the office of the city secretary; provided, the words “municipality” in said unabridged form shall be understood to refer to this city.
(b)
Any person who violates any of the provisions of such manual shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 1.01.009 of this code. In addition thereto, such persons may be enjoined from continuing such violations. Each day such a violation occurs constitutes a separate violation.
(1984 Code, sec. 10-57; 1998 Code, sec. 6.302)
(a)
The production, transportation, processing, handling, sampling, examination, grading, labeling and sale of all milk and milk products sold for the ultimate consumption within the city or its jurisdiction, the inspection of dairy herds, dairy farms and milk plants, and the issuing and revocation of permits to milk producers, haulers and distributors shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of part II of the Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance, 1978 Recommendations of the United States Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, a certified copy of which is filed in the office of the city secretary; provided that sections 9, 16 and 17 are deleted.
(1984 Code, sec. 10-58; 1998 Code, sec. 6.303)
(a)
No person operating or managing any public eating place or any place where food or drink is manufactured, processed, prepared, dispensed or otherwise handled in such manner under such circumstances as would permit probable transmission of disease from any handler thereof to the consumer shall employ or work any person to handle such products or utensils, dishes or serving implements used in connection therewith who is infected with any transmissible condition of any disease known to be normally communicable through the handling of food or drink.
(b)
No person infected with a disease, the condition of which is transmissible to another through the handling of food or drink, or who resides in a household with a transmissible case of a communicable disease which may be food-borne or who is known to be a carrier of the organisms causing such disease, and no person having a local infection transmissible through food or drink, shall be employed at any place or vehicle in which food or drink is manufactured, processed, prepared or dispensed, nor shall any such person at any time handle any food or drink or utensils, dishes or serving implements used in connection therewith which may be directly or indirectly for public sale or offered for the use of consumption of another.
(c)
All such persons and employees employed or seeking employment in any of the capacities hereinabove set forth shall secure an adequate examination of themselves by a licensed physician stating that such examination has been made and that, to the best of his knowledge, the person examined was found on that date to be free of any transmissible condition of any disease or local infection commonly transmitted through the handling of food or drink, and annually thereafter have such examination and certificate. Such examinations shall be actual and thorough and conducted within the framework of practical scientific procedures for the determination of the existence of communicable diseases which may be transmitted through the handling of food, and that a skin test for tuberculosis be done and on those with a positive skin test, a chest X-ray be done annually.
(1984 Code, secs. 10-59–10-61; 1998 Code, secs. 6.304–6.306)