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                                   CS/HB 1345, First Engrossed/ntc



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to public food service

  3         establishments; amending s. 509.032, F.S.;

  4         providing that certain rules adopted by the

  5         Division of Hotels and Restaurants shall

  6         provide alternative methods of achieving food

  7         protection in certain rules related to cooking

  8         and handling foods; providing an effective

  9         date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section

14  509.032, Florida Statutes, 1996 Supplement, is amended to

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16         509.032  Duties.--

17         (2)  INSPECTION OF PREMISES.--

18         (d)  The division shall adopt and enforce sanitation

19  rules consistent with law to ensure the protection of the

20  public from food-borne illness in those establishments

21  licensed under this chapter.  These rules shall provide the

22  standards and requirements for obtaining, storing, preparing,

23  processing, serving, or displaying food in public food service

24  establishments, approving public food service establishment

25  facility plans, conducting necessary public food service

26  establishment inspections, cooperating and coordinating with

27  the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in

28  epidemiological investigations, and initiating enforcement

29  actions, and for other such responsibilities deemed necessary

30  by the division. The division shall include alternative

31  methods of achieving food protection in the rules related to


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                                   CS/HB 1345, First Engrossed/ntc



  1  time and temperature combinations for cooking foods and in the

  2  rules related to hand contact with foods. Such alternatives

  3  shall achieve equivalent lethality, and minimized hand contact

  4  with foods by the use of single-use gloves, suitable utensils,

  5  or approved antibacterial soaps, dips, or hand sanitizers.

  6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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