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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 217.290: Buildings and equipment to be kept clean, healthful and sanitary --

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  1. KRS Chapter 217

Protection from contamination -- Removal of waste.

The floors, side walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements and machinery of every

establishment or place where food intended for sale is produced, prepared, manufactured,

packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all vehicles used in the transportation of such

food, shall not be kept or permitted to remain in an unclean, unhealthy or unsanitary

condition. An unclean, unhealthf ul and unsanitary condition shall be deemed to exist if

food in the process of production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, sale,

distribution or transportation is not securely protected from flies, dust and dirt, and as far

as may be necessary by all reasonable means from all other foreign or injurious

contamination; or if the refuse, dirt or waste products subject to decomposition and

fermentation incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling,

distributing or transportation of food is not removed daily; or if all machinery, equipment

and utensils are not thoroughly cleaned daily, or if the clothing of persons therein

employed is unclean.

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