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2007 California Health and Safety Code Article 2. Lighting
CA Codes (hsc:114252-114252.1)
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODESECTION 114252-114252.1
114252. In every room and area in which any food is prepared, manufactured, processed, or prepackaged, or in which equipment or utensils are cleaned, sufficient natural or artificial lighting shall be provided to produce the following light intensity, while the area is in use: (a) At least 10-foot candles at a distance of 30 inches above the floor, in walk-in refrigeration units and dry food storage areas. (b) At least 20-foot candles for the following: (1) At a surface where food is provided for consumer self-service or where fresh produce or prepackaged foods are sold or offered for consumption. (2) Inside equipment such as reach-in and under-counter refrigerators. (3) At a distance of 30 inches above the floor in areas used for handwashing, warewashing, and equipment and utensil storage, and in toilet rooms. (c) At least 50-foot candles at a surface where a food employee is working with food or working with utensils or equipment such as knives, slicers, grinders, or saws where employee safety is a factor and in other areas and rooms during periods of cleaning. 114252.1. (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), light bulbs shall be shielded, coated, or otherwise shatter-resistant in areas where there is nonprepackaged ready-to-eat food, clean equipment, utensils, and linens, or unwrapped single-use articles. (b) Shielded, coated, or otherwise shatter-resistant bulbs need not be used in areas used only for storing prepackaged food in unopened packages, if the integrity of the packages cannot be affected by broken glass falling onto them and the packages are capable of being cleaned of debris from broken bulbs before the packages are opened. (c) Infrared and other heat lamps shall be protected against breakage by a shield surrounding and extending beyond the bulb so that only the face of the bulb is exposed, or by using approved coated shatter resistant bulbs.
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