2014 Idaho Statutes
Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 16 - FOOD ESTABLISHMENT ACT
Section 39-1602 - DEFINITIONS.
(1) "Commissary" means a place where food, containers or supplies are stored, prepared or packaged for transit, sale or service at other locations.
(2) "Food establishment" means those operations in the food business such as, but not limited to, food processing establishments, canning factories, salvage processing facilities, food service establishments, cold storage plants, commissaries, warehouses, food vending machine operations and location, caterers, mobile food units and retail food stores. Such operations include all activities under the control of the license holder including preparation, processing, storage, service, transportation vehicles, satellite locations, divisions and departments, and remote feeding sites. The term includes operations which are conducted in permanent, temporary or mobile facilities or locations. It includes any food operation regardless of whether consumption is on or off the premises and regardless of whether there is a charge for the food. Individual divisions and departments on one (1) premises and under common ownership shall as a whole be considered a single food establishment. The term "food establishment" does not include:
(3) "Intermittent food establishment" means a food vendor that operates for a period of time, not to exceed three (3) days per week, at a single, specified location in conjunction with a recurring event and that offers potentially hazardous food to the general public. Examples of a recurring event may be a farmers' or community market or a holiday market. "Intermittent food establishment" does not include the vendor of farm fresh ungraded eggs at a recurring event.
(4) "Mobile food establishment" means a food establishment selling or serving food for human consumption from any vehicle or other temporary or itinerant station and includes any movable food service establishment, truck, van, trailer, pushcart, bicycle, watercraft or other movable food service with or without wheels, including hand-carried, portable containers in or on which food or beverage is transported, stored or prepared for retail sale or given away at temporary locations.
(5) "Potentially hazardous food" means any food or ingredient, natural or synthetic, in a form capable of supporting the rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms or the slower growth of clostridium botulinum. Included is any food of animal origin, either raw or heat treated and any food of plant origin which has been heat treated or which is raw seed sprouts; cut melons; and garlic and oil mixtures. The term "potentially hazardous food" does not include:
(6) "Regulatory authority" means the director of the Idaho department of health and welfare or the director's designee.
(7) "Temporary food establishment" means a food establishment that operates for a period of not more than fourteen (14) consecutive days in conjunction with a single event or celebration.
History:
[39-1602, added 1991, ch. 142, sec. 2, p. 334; am. 1993, ch. 114, sec. 1, p. 291; am. 1994, ch. 138, sec. 1, p. 311; am. 1997, ch. 194, sec. 2, p. 548; am. 2004, ch. 185, sec. 1, p. 576; am. 2009, ch. 190, sec. 1, p. 619.]
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