The licensee shall ensure that supervisors meet the training, certification, and registration requirements in this chapter and in the federal regulations identified in this chapter.
The licensee shall ensure that supervisors responsible for preventing sanitation failures or food contamination have an educational background or experience, or a combination thereof, in FDA and USDA good manufacturing practice for the safe manufacturing, processing, and packing processes of acidified foods and thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers.
The licensee shall ensure that supervisors involved in thermal processing systems, acidification, and container closure evaluation programs for low- acid and acidified canned foods are certified by an FDA and USDA approved institution.
The licensee shall ensure that supervisors who are certified as specified in section 200.3 are also registered with the FDA as qualified food canning supervisors.
The licensee shall ensure that all food employees involved in acidification, ph control, heat treatment, or other critical factors of a food processing operation are under the direct supervision of a person who:
Supervisors who are certified and registered with the FDA as required under sections 200.3 and 200.4 shall supervise only in areas in which they are certified. A food processing operation shall have supervisors certified in all relevant food processing activities on the premises at all times when such activities are being conducted.
Supervisors who are certified and registered with the FDA as required under sections 200.3 and 200.4 shall be knowledgeable in the following areas:
Documentation that a supervisor is certified and registered with the FDA as required under sections 200.3 and 200.4 shall be conspicuously posted in the food processing operation next to the food processing operation's District- issued license. This documentation shall be removed when the individual is no longer employed on-site by the food processing operation.
All supervisors of food processing operations required to be certified and registered by the FDA under section 200.3 and 200.4 shall obtain an identification card, issued by the Department, which shall be renewed every two (2) years.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 25, r. 25-B200