Service of leftovers. All frozen food shall be kept frozen until ready for preparation. No food which has been thawed shall be refrozen unless it has been cooked or processed. Employees serving food shall use tongs, other utensils or wear plastic gloves. When food is displayed for customer self service, it will not be necessary to have protective sneeze shields as long as the following guidelines are met.
Food is displayed no more than two hours.
No open food or potentially hazardous foods is reserved or reused. Tongs or other suitable utensils are provided so that there is no hand contact with the food. Persons engaged in food preparation, service and warewashing operations shall wear clean clothing and thoroughly wash their hands and the exposed portions of their arms with soap or detergent and warm water before starting work, after smoking, eating or using the toilet and as often as is necessary during work to keep them clean. Employees shall keep their fingernails trimmed and clean. All bed and breakfast inns permitted or extensively remodeled after the effective date of this rule shall provide facilities exclusively for handwashing within or adjacent to each kitchen.