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New Jersey Protect Your Produce, Protect Your Customers Poster
The Protect Your Produce, Protect Your Customers is a labor law posters poster by the New Jersey Department Of Labor and Workforce Development. This is an optional poster, so while it is recommended that you post this if it is relevant to your employees, you are not required to by the Department Of Labor and Workforce Development.
This poster, provided by the NJ Department of Health, provides safety guidelines in handling produce. This includes step-by-step tips to wash, sanitize and handle produce.
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1. CHECK IF YOUR VENDORS ARE
FOLLOWING GOOD AGRICULTURAL
PRACTICE GUIDELINES.
2. FOLLOW GOOD RECEIVING AND
STORAGE PRACTICES, INCLUDING
TEMPERATURE MONITORING.
4. WASH AND SANITIZE UTENSILS AND
EQUIPMENT BEFORE CUTTING, SLICING,
OR CHOPPING ALL RAW PRODUCE.
3. AVOID OR MINIMIZE BARE HAND
CONTACT WITH RAW PRODUCE. WASH
HANDS IN WARM, SOAPY WATER FOR 20
SECONDS BEFORE HANDLING PRODUCE.
5. WASH MELONS BEFORE SLICING.
CHECK THAT INTERNAL TEMPERATURE
IS 41 °F OR LESS. THEN SANITIZE
UTENSILS AND EQUIPMENT. AFTER
SLICING, PLACE MELON ON ICE.
PROTECT YOUR PRODUCE,
PROTECT YOUR CUSTOMERS
May O’Dowd, Commissioner Public Health Services Consumer and Environmental Health Services Food and Drug Safety Program Phone: 609 -826 -4935 Fax: 609 -826 -4990 nj.gov/health/ eoh /foodweb /
4. WASH AND SANITITZE UTENSILS AND
EQUIPMENT BEFORE CUTTING, SLICING,
OR CHOPPING PRODUCE.
6. MONITOR HEALTH OF EMPLOYEES. IF
THEY COUGH OR SNEEZE EXCESSIVELY,
OR ARE NAUSEOUS, VOMITING, OR HAVE
DIARRHEA THEY SHOULD BE SENT HOME.
Distributed by The New Jersey Food Council 30 West Lafayette Street Trenton, NJ 08608 609 -392 -8899 www.njfoodcouncil.com /
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- Original poster PDF https://www.state.nj.us/health/ceohs/documents/food-drug-safety/protect_your_produce.pdf , updated April 2020
- New Jersey Labor Law Posters at https://www.nj.gov/labor/wageandhour/tools-resources/forms-publications/employer-poster-packet/
- New Jersey Department Of Labor and Workforce Development
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