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The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes the Food Code, a model that assists food control jurisdictions at all levels of government by providing them with a scientifically sound technical and legal basis for regulating the retail and food service segment of the industry (restaurants and grocery stores and institutions such as nursing homes). Local, state, tribal, and federal regulators use the FDA Food Code as a model to develop or update their own food safety rules and to be consistent with national food regulatory policy.
The most recent version of the Food Code is dated 2017. FDA decided to move to a four-year interval between complete Food Code editions. During the interim period between full editions, FDA may publish a Food Code Supplement that updates, modifies, or clarifies certain provisions. The 2005 Food Code was the first full edition published on the new four-year interval, and it was followed by the Supplement to the 2005 Food Code, which was published in 2007. The 2017 Food Code is the most recent full edition published by FDA.The Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) reported in June 2005, that 48 of 56 States and territories have adopted food codes patterned after one of the five versions of the Food Code, beginning with the 1993 edition. Those 48 states and territories represent 79% of the U.S. population.
Copies of the 1999 Food Code are available in the following formats:
Copies of the 1997 Food Code are available in the following formats:
Note: The above files contain links to external files, such as CFR references contained in the Food Code, that were intended to work when loaded onto a pc and not over the internet. Therefore, these external links do not work over the internet. However, you may download the entire Food Code, below, with the references, and use it locally on your hard drive if you want to be able to access these additional file links.
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