If its container is composed in whole or in part of any poisonous
or deleterious substance which is likely to render the contents injurious
to health.
APPROVED
Accepted as satisfactory to the Health Officer.
CUSTARD MIX AND CUSTARD-FILLED
Any product consisting principally of flour, sugar, eggs
and/or milk, with or without cornstarch, heated, cooled and applied
to pastry without subsequent heating, and to filled pastry such as
cream puffs or eclairs which may be heated subsequent to filling.
EMPLOYEE
Any person who handles food or drink during the preparation
or serving of food or drink, comes in contact with any eating or cooking
utensils or who is employed in a room or building in which food or
drink is prepared or served. This shall include an individual proprietor
or any member of the proprietor's family who handles food or
drink.
EQUIPMENT
All stoves, ranges, hoods, meat blocks, tables, counters,
refrigerators, sinks, dish-washing machines, steam tables and similar
items, other than utensils, used in the operation of a public eating
and drinking place or a food establishment.
FOOD
Any raw, cooked or processed edible substance, beverage or
ingredient intended in whole or in part for human consumption.
FOOD-CONTACT SURFACES
Surfaces of equipment and utensils which normally come in
contact with food, directly or indirectly.
FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
Any place where food or beverage intended for human consumption
is kept, stored, manufactured, prepared, dressed, handled, sold or
offered for sale, with or without charge, either at wholesale or retail
and not consumed on the premises; provided, however, that the term
"food establishment" shall not include a public eating and drinking
place.
FOOD VENDING VEHICLE
A conveyance that transports, for the purpose of distribution
or sale to the public, prepared foods or food deemed by the Health
Officer to be perishable or otherwise covered by this chapter. Such
conveyance may be a truck, trailer, cart, bicycle or other vehicle,
container or similar type of equipment.
GARBAGE
All wastes, except sewage and body waste, including animal
and offal.
HEALTH OFFICER
The Health Officer of Lansdowne Borough or his/her authorized
representative(s).
ITINERANT PUBLIC EATING AND DRINKING PLACE
A place or establishment operating for a temporary period
not to exceed 14 days in connection with a fair, carnival, circus,
public exhibition, public event or similar gathering.
LICENSE
The permission granted to a licensee to conduct a public
eating and drinking place, food establishment or itinerant public
eating and drinking place.
LICENSER
The Health Officer of Lansdowne Borough.
NUISANCE
A public nuisance affecting health.
ODOR EMISSIONS
Fugitive or malodorous air contaminants emitted into the
outdoor atmosphere from any source in such a manner that the contaminants
are detectable outside the property of the person on whose land the
source is being operated.
OWNER
The owner or owners of any building or structure, whether
individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership,
and includes the plural as well as the singular, and the female as
well as the male.
POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOOD OR DRINK
Any perishable food or drink which consists, in whole or
in part, of milk or milk products, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, shellfish
or other ingredients which are capable of supporting growth of infectious
or toxigenic microorganisms or life forms.
PROPRIETOR
Any person, partnership, association or corporation conducting
or operating within the limits of the Borough a public eating and
drinking place or a food establishment or an itinerant public eating
and drinking place.
PUBLIC EATING AND DRINKING PLACE
Restaurant; coffee shop; cafeteria short-order cafe; snack
bar or any other place where food, drinks or refreshments are served,
sold or prepared and sold or given away to be consumed on the premises;
provided, however, that this definition shall not be interpreted to
include boardinghouses or private homes.
REFUSE
All nonputrescible wastes generally regarded as rubbish,
trash, junk and similar debris which have been rejected by the owner
or possessor thereof as useless or worthless.
SANITIZE
Effective bactericidal treatment of clean surfaces of equipment
and utensils by a process which has been approved by the Pennsylvania
Department of Health as being effective in destroying microorganisms,
including pathogens.
SHELLFISH
Includes oysters, clams, scallops or mussels, fresh and frozen;
any shrimp, crab or lobster, fresh., frozen or cooked but not packed
in a sealed container; and any other mollusks, fresh or frozen, intended
for human consumption.
SINGLE-SERVICE ARTICLES
Cups, containers, lids or closures, plates, knives, forks,
spoons, stirrers, paddles, straws, placemats, napkins, doilies, wrapping
materials and all similar articles which are constructed wholly or
in part from paper, paperboard, molded pulp, foil, wood, plastic,
synthetic or other readily destructible material, and which are intended
by the manufacturers and generally recognized by the public for a
one-time use only, and then to be discarded.
SOURCE
Any well, spring, cistern infiltration gallery, steam, reservoir,
pond or lake from which water is taken, by any means, either intermittently
or continuously for use by the public.
UTENSILS
Any kitchenware, tableware, glassware, cutlery, containers
or other equipment with which food or drink comes in contact during
storage, preparation or serving.
WASTE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrements or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals,
and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use
of water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
WATER-SUPPLY
A source or sources of water, as well as any and all water
treatment, storage, transmission and distribution facilities.