Sec.21a-101-1. Statement of purpose

(a) The purpose of this section and sections 21a-101-2, 21a-101-7 and 21a-101-8 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies is to provide definitive sanitary standards for food establishments. Section 21a-101 (a) (4) of the Connecticut General Statutes provides that a food shall be deemed to be adulterated if it has been produced, prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions whereby it may become contaminated with filth or whereby it may have been rendered diseased, unwholesome or injurious to health. A substantial failure to comply with said regulations shall constitute such unsanitary conditions.

(b) The United States Food and Drug Administration Food Code, as amended from time to time by the Conference for Food Protection, and published and adopted by the United States Food and Drug Administration and the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is adopted and herein incorporated by reference as the sanitary standards for this state.

(Effective June 22, 1990; Amended September 1, 2005; Amended October 11, 2016)