P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 550m
The owner or manager of a body piercing studio shall comply with the sanitary rules established by the Department, as well as with the following norms:
(a) Equipment. — If the studio’s managing owner were not the licensed body piercer, same shall provide to the latter the sterilized individual equipment to be used with each client and shall ensure that the body piercer complies with the duty of keeping the equipment sterile.
The equipment used in body piercing shall be cleaned and sterilized with an ultrasonic cleaner. The equipment shall be immersed in this solution for ten (10) minutes. The solution shall be changed daily and the tank shall be cleaned with isopropyl alcohol at seventy percent (70%) at each solution change.
(b) Sterilization procedure. — The body piercing studio must have the necessary sterilization equipment to contain all the instruments used. The sterilization procedure shall be performed scientifically, including the cleaning and removal of tissue or blood before sterilizing the equipment.
(c) Body piercing norms and procedures. — Prepare and maintain a manual of rules and procedures containing instructions and guidelines on sanitary norms, information and statements, equipment and sterilization procedures, and other items required by this chapter or by the Department regulations, subject to review by the Department’s inspectors.
History —Feb. 8, 2003, No. 73, § 15, eff. 90 days after Feb. 8, 2003.