Distressed food means processed food exposed to a fire, flood, transportation accident, refrigeration breakdown or other unusual condition which may affect its safety or suitability as human food. This subdivision does not include food or food pack- ages damaged during normal conditions of food and food product handling, transit or storage.
Distressed food means any food, the label of which has been lost, defaced, or obliterated; food that has been subjected to possible damage due to accident, re, ood, adverse weather, or to any other similar cause; or food that is suspected of having been rendered unsafe or unsuitable for food use.
Distressed food means processed food exposed to a fire, flood, transportation accident, 1080 refrigeration breakdown, or other unusual condition which may affect its safety or suitability as 1081 human food. “Distressed food” does not include food or food packages damaged during normal 1082 conditions of food and food product handling, transit, or storage. 1083 2. “Reconditioned food" means packaged distressed food distributed or offered for sale as 1084 human food after its package is repaired or relabeled without being opened. 1085 3. “Reprocessed food" means distressed food subsequently processed in accordance with the 1086 requirements under this chapter and distributed or offered for sale as human food. 1087 (b) An operator shall notify the department within 3 days after the operator takes possession of 1088 any distressed food, or within 3 days after food in the operator’s custody becomes distressed food. 1089 The operator shall notify the department before the operator reprocesses or reconditions the 1090 distressed food. 1091 (c) An operator shall identify distressed food as such, and shall separate it from other food. 1092 No operator may store distressed food in a processing area, or under conditions which may lead to 1093 the contamination of other food, equipment, utensils, or packaging materials. 1094 (d) No operator may do either of the following: 1095 1. Reprocess for sale, as human food, any distressed food which is unwholesome or 1096 adulterated. 1097 2. Offer for sale, sell, or distribute food in packages that are damaged to such an extent that the 1098 food may have been exposed or subjected to possible contamination, including packages with 1099 bulging ends, ruptures, hairline fractures, breakage along critical seams, or openings which may 1100 have exposed food to contamination.
Examples of Distressed food in a sentence
Distressed food commodities that are reconditioned, relabeled and/or re-cased are not acceptable.
Distressed food or salvageable food shall be sold or otherwise distributed only to a licensed food salvage processing establishment.
More Definitions of Distressed food
Distressed food means processed food exposed to a fire, flood, transportation accident, refrigeration breakdown, or other unusual condition which may affect its safety or suitability as human food. “Distressed food” does not include food or food packages damaged during normal conditions of food
Distressed food means food substances that are being stored or transported in a facility or vehicle that is involved in any type of accident, collision, fire, flood, weather- related or other type of disturbance which may adulterate the food substances, cause food to experience temperature stress, or in any way cause the food substances to be of questionable quality for human consumption.
Distressed food means any food without label, mislabeled, that has been subjected to prolonged or improper storage, or that has been subjected to possible damage due to accident, fire, flood, adverse weather, physical trauma, mishandling, or to any other cause, and which may have been rendered unsafe or unsuitable for human or animal consumption.