Section 001-351-1 - DefinitionsFor the purposes of this chapter and unless the context otherwise indicates, the following words shall have the following meanings.
A. "Adequate" means that which is needed to accomplish the intended purpose in keeping with good public health practice.B. "Easily cleanable" means readily accessible and of such material and finish and so fabricated that residues may be completely removed by usual cleaning methods.C. "Employee" means any person working in an ice plant or ice production area within any commercial establishment, who transports ice or ice containers, who engages in ice manufacture, processing, packaging, storage, or distribution, or who comes into contact with any ice equipment.D. "Food Contact Surfaces" means any surface, including water lines, that contacts the product or ingredients, and those surfaces from which water may drain, drip, or splash back onto food or food contact surfaces.E. "Department" means the Maine Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources.F. "Ice" means the product, in any form, obtained as a result of freezing water by mechanical or artificial means. It does not include product formed by the natural process of freezing of untreated surface waters, which shall be created separately in these regulations.G. "Industrial Ice" means product which is not produced under sanitary conditions, and which is used in a non-food industrial process, such as cooling glue or concrete mix.H. "Ice Plant" means any commercial establishment or production area within any commercial establishment, together with the necessary appurtenances, in which ice is manufactured, processed, or packaged.I. "Processing" means grinding, crushing, flaking, cubing, or any other operation which changes the physical characteristics of ice packaged for human consumption.J. "Sanitization" means effective bactericidal treatment by a process that effectively destroys microbes of public health significance, without adversely affecting the safety of the product.01-001 C.M.R. ch. 351, § 1