2010 Tennessee Code
Title 53 - Food, Drugs And Cosmetics
Chapter 8 - Establishments Selling Food
Part 1 - Health and Sanitation
53-8-101 - Part definitions.

53-8-101. Part definitions.

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (1)  “Food” includes all articles used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment, whether simple, mixed or compound, and all substances or ingredients used in the preparation of food; and

     (2)  “Unclean, unhealthful, and unsanitary condition” is deemed to exist if:

          (A)  Food in the process of manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, sale, distribution or transportation is not securely protected from flies, dust, dirt, and, as far as may be necessary, by all reasonable means, from all other foreign or injurious contamination;

          (B)  The refuse, dirt, and the waste products subject to decomposition and fermentation incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, sale, distribution and transportation of food are not removed daily;

          (C)  All trucks, trays, boxes, baskets, buckets, and other receptacles, chutes, platforms, racks, tables, shelves, and all knives, saws, cleavers, and other utensils and machinery used in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning, and all other processes are not thoroughly cleaned daily; or

          (D)  The clothing of the operatives, employees, clerks or other persons employed in the establishment or place is unclean.

[Acts 1909, ch. 473, §§ 1, 2; 1913 (1st E.S.), ch. 15, § 1; Shan., §§ 3473a41, 3473a43; mod. Code 1932, §§ 6598, 6600; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 53-1001, 53-1002.]