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217.290 Buildings and equipment to be kept clean, healthful and sanitary -- Protection from contamination -- Removal of waste.

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217.290 Buildings and equipment to be kept clean, healthful and sanitary -- Protection from contamination -- Removal of waste. The floors, side walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements and machinery of every <br>establishment or place where food intended for sale is produced, prepared, manufactured, <br>packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all vehicles used in the transportation of such <br>food, shall not be kept or permitted to remain in an unclean, unhealthy or unsanitary <br>condition. An unclean, unhealthful and unsanitary condition shall be deemed to exist if <br>food in the process of production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, sale, <br>distribution or transportation is not securely protected from flies, dust and dirt, and as far <br>as may be necessary by all reasonable means from all other foreign or injurious <br>contamination; or if the refuse, dirt or waste products subject to decomposition and <br>fermentation incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling, <br>distributing or transportation of food is not removed daily; or if all machinery, equipment <br>and utensils are not thoroughly cleaned daily, or if the clothing of persons therein <br>employed is unclean. Effective: October 1, 1942 <br>History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2060b-2.