File #: BOH24-03    Version: 1
Type: R&R Status: Passed
File created: In control: Board of Health
On agenda: Final action: 9/19/2024
Enactment date: Enactment #: BOH24-03
Title: A RULE AND REGULATION relating to food safety ratings for general food service establishments, bakeries, mobile food units, meat/fish establishments, and catering operations; amending R&R 17-01, Section 3, and BOH 5.04.055 and R&R 17-01, Section 5, and BOH 5.15.010 and prescribing an effective date; enacted pursuant to RCW 70.05.060, including the latest amendments or revisions thereto.
Attachments: 1. R&R No. BOH24-03 - DOCUSIGN.docx

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Clerk 08/29/2024

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A RULE AND REGULATION relating to food safety ratings for general food service establishments, bakeries, mobile food units, meat/fish establishments, and catering operations; amending R&R 17-01, Section 3, and BOH 5.04.055 and R&R 17-01, Section 5, and BOH 5.15.010 and prescribing an effective date; enacted pursuant to RCW 70.05.060, including the latest amendments or revisions thereto.

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                     BE IT ADOPTED BY THE KING COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH:

                     SECTION 1.  R&R No. 17-01, Section 3, and BOH 5.04.055 are hereby amended to read as follows:

                     Food safety rating placard.  WAC 246-215-01115 is supplemented with the following:

                     Food safety rating placard (WAC 246-215-01115(51.2)).

                     "Food safety rating placard" means a placard displaying the food safety rating score of a general food service establishment, bakery, mobile food unit, meat/fish establishment, or catering operation as determined by the health officer in accordance with this title.

                     SECTION 2.  R&R No. 17-01, Section 5, and BOH 5.15.010 are hereby amended to read as follows:

                     Food safety rating placards.  A.  The requirements of this section apply to general food service establishments, bakeries, mobile food units, meat/fish establishments, and catering operations, and not to any other category of food establishment.

                     B.  The ((general food service establishment)) owner or operator of a general food service establishment, bakery, mobile food unit, meat/fish establishment, or catering operation shall post, at the establishment, a food safety rating placard or placards provided by the health officer.  Each placard must be posted:

                       1.  Within five feet of the main public entrance or entrances of the general food service establishment, bakery, mobile food unit, meat/fish establishment, or catering operation, positioned conspicuously in a window or display case to ensure the placard is clearly visible to passersby and to patrons entering or visiting the establishment; or

                       2.  In a conspicuous location at the general food service establishment, bakery, mobile food unit, meat/fish establishment, or catering operation as determined and directed in the discretion of the health officer to ensure the placard is clearly visible to passersby and to patrons entering or visiting the establishment.

                     C.  After the conclusion of each routine food safety inspection, the health officer shall recalculate the food safety rating of the general food service establishment, bakery, mobile food unit, meat/fish establishment, or catering operation and provide the establishment owner or operator one or more updated food safety rating placards for display at the establishment.

                     SECTION 3.  Effective date.  This rule takes effect January 1, 2025.

                     SECTION 4.  Severability.  If any provision of this rule or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the rule or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.