Sec.22-17a-7. Approved bactericidal processes

The following are approved bactericidal processes:

(a) Immersion for at least two minutes in clean, hot water at a temperature of at least 170°F. or for one-half minute in boiling water. Unless actually boiling water is used, an approved thermometer shall be available, convenient to the vat. The pouring of scalding water over washed utensils shall not be accepted as satisfactory compliance; or

(b) Immersion for at least two minutes in a lukewarm chlorine bath containing at least fifty p.p.m. of available chlorine if hypochlorites are used, or a concentration of equal bactericidal strength if chloramines are used. The bath should be made up at a strength of one hundred p.p.m. or more of hypochlorites and shall not be used after its strength has been reduced to fifty p.p.m.; or

(c) Exposure in a steam cabinet equipped with an indicating thermometer located in the coldest zone to at least 170°F. for at least fifteen minutes, or to at least 200°F. for at least five minutes, or

(d) Exposure in a properly designed oven or hot-air cabinet equipped with an indicating thermometer located in the coldest zone to hot air at a temperature of at least 180°F. for at least twenty minutes.

(See Reg. 19-13-B58 App.)