(a) In addition to
the other applicable requirements of this chapter, a person who offers
potentially hazardous food for sale in a vending machine shall meet the
requirements of this section.
(b)
The operator of an establishment providing machines vending potentially
hazardous foods shall ensure that
(1) each
machine vending potentially hazardous food is supported by an approved storage
and servicing area or is supplied and serviced from a commissary;
(2) each machine is designed, constructed,
and operated in a way that equals or exceeds NSF's ANSI/NSF International
Standard 25 - 2000,
Vending Machines for Food and Beverages,or
the National Automatic Merchandising Association's (NAMA)
Standard for
the Sanitary Design and Construction of Food and Beverage Vending
Machines,both of which are adopted by reference in
18 AAC 31.011;
(3) water used in each machine is obtained
from a source constructed and operated as required by 18 AAC 80;
(4) employees wash their hands immediately
before loading the machine or use single-use gloves;
(5) potentially hazardous food is dispensed
to the consumer in the individual, original container or package into which it
was placed at the commissary;
(6)
milk and fluid milk products are dispensed only in individual, original
containers;
(7) fluid milk
products, and fluid nondairy products such as creaming agents, are not
dispensed in a vending machine as an ingredient in hot liquid beverages or
other food;
(8) the temperature of
potentially hazardous food is kept at 41º F or below for cold-held food or
135º F or above for hot-held food except during the time required to load
or service the machine and no more than 30 minutes after loading or servicing;
and
(9) a conspicuous label is
affixed to the front of each machine with the name, physical address, and phone
number of the food establishment permitted under this chapter to operate the
vending machine.
(c) A
semi-automated espresso machine that uses liquid milk and that, upon activation
of a switch or insertion of a coin, dispenses a beverage into a container
placed under the dispenser by an employee or a consumer is not considered a
vending machine for purposes of this chapter.
