Arizona Administrative Code › Title 9 - HEALTH SERVICES › Chapter 3 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES - CHILD CARE GROUP HOMES › Article 4 - PROGRAM AND EQUIPMENT STANDARDS › Section R9-3-407 - General Food Service and Food Handling Standards

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A. A certificate holder shall ensure that:
1. Except as provided in subsection (B), each
				staff member washes the staff member's hands with soap and running water before
				handling food, after handling potentially hazardous food, and before serving
				food;
2. Except as provided in
				subsection (B), enrolled children, except infants and children with special
				needs who cannot wash their own hands, wash their hands with soap and running
				water before and after handling or eating food;
3. A staff member:
a. Washes with a washcloth, paper towel,
				disposable wipe, or soap and running water the hands of an enrolled infant or
				child with special needs who cannot wash the child's own hands before and after
				the enrolled infant or child with special needs handles or eats food; and
b. If using a washcloth, paper
				towel, or disposable wipes, uses each washcloth, paper towel, or disposable
				wipe only once before it is laundered or discarded;
4. A staff member:
a. Encourages, but never forces, an enrolled
				child to eat;
b. Assists each
				enrolled child who needs assistance with eating; and
c. Teaches self-feeding skills and habits of
				good nutrition to each enrolled child as necessary;
5. Food served to an enrolled child younger
				than five years of age is prepared so as not to present a choking
				hazard;
6. Each enrolled child is
				supplied with drinking and eating utensils for the child's own use;
7. Each enrolled child's bottle or sippy cup
				is marked with an identifier that is specific to the enrolled child;
8. An enrolled child is not allowed to drink
				from the bottle, sippy cup, cup, or glass of another individual;
9. An enrolled child is not allowed to eat
				food directly off the floor, carpet, or ground;
10. An enrolled child's parent is notified
				when the child consistently refuses to eat or exhibits unusual eating
				behavior;
11. Each staff member is
				informed of a modified diet prescribed for an enrolled child by the child's
				parent, physician, physician assistant, or registered nurse practitioner, as
				specified in
				R9-3-303(B)(8),
				and is written and posted in the kitchen;
12. The food served to an enrolled child is
				consistent with a modified diet prescribed for the child by the child's parent,
				physician, physician assistant, or registered nurse, as specified in
				R9-3-303(B)(8),
				and is written and posted in the kitchen;
13. After each use, non-single-use utensils
				and equipment used in preparing, eating, or drinking food are:
a. Washed in an automatic dishwasher and air
				dried or heat dried; or
b. Washed
				in hot soapy water, rinsed in clean water, and air dried or heat
				dried;
14. Single-use
				utensils and equipment are disposed of after being used;
15. Perishable foods are covered and stored
				in a refrigerator;
16. A
				refrigerator at the child care group home maintains a temperature of 41° F or
				below, as shown by a thermometer kept in the refrigerator at all
				times;
17. A freezer at the child
				care group home maintains a temperature of 0° F or below, as shown by a
				thermometer kept in the freezer at all times;
18. Foods are prepared as close as possible
				to serving time and, if prepared in advance, are either:
a. Cold held at a temperature of 45° F or
				below or hot held at a temperature of 130° F or above until served,
				or
b. Cold held at a temperature of
				45° F or below and then reheated to a temperature of at least 165° F before
				being served;
19. When
				fresh milk is poured from the original-commercial milk container into a serving
				container used at a meal or a cup, the unused milk is not returned to the
				original-commercial milk container;
20. Food leftover from a meal where enrolled
				children pass a serving container from individual to individual or from the
				provider's family meal is not served to an enrolled child; and
21. A food is not served past its expiration
				date or after it has begun to spoil.