{"data":{"id":"us-va/2vac5-585-470","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"2VAC5-585-470","heading":"Packaged and unpackaged food - separation, packaging, and segregation","body":"A. Food shall be protected from cross contamination by:\n\n1. Except as specified in subsection C of this section, separating raw animal foods during storage, preparation, holding, and display from:\n\na. Raw ready-to-eat food including other raw animal food such as fish for sushi or molluscan shellfish, or other raw ready-to-eat food such as fruits and vegetables;P\n\nb. Cooked ready-to-eat food;P and\n\nc. Fruits or vegetables before they are washed;\n\n2. Except when combined as ingredients, separating types of raw animal foods from each other such as beef, fish, lamb, pork, and poultry during storage, preparation, holding, and display by:\n\na. Using separate equipment for each type; P\n\nb. Arranging each type of food in equipment so that cross contamination of one type with another is prevented;P and\n\nc. Preparing each type of food at different times or in separate areas;P\n\n3. Cleaning equipment and utensils as specified under 2VAC5-585-1780 A and sanitizing as specified under 2VAC5-585-1900;\n\n4. Except as specified in subdivision B 2 of 2VAC5-585-810 and subsection B of this section, storing the food in packages, covered containers, or wrappings;\n\n5. Cleaning hermetically sealed containers of food of visible soil before opening;\n\n6. Protecting food containers that are received packaged together in a case or overwrap from cuts when the case or overwrap is opened;\n\n7. Storing damaged, spoiled, or recalled food being held in the food establishment as specified under 2VAC5-585-3150; and\n\n8. Separating fruits and vegetables before they are washed as specified under 2VAC5-585-510 from ready-to-eat food.\n\nB. Subdivision A 4 of this section does not apply to:\n\n1. Whole, uncut, raw fruits and vegetables and nuts in the shell that require peeling or hulling before consumption;\n\n2. Primal cuts, quarters, or sides of raw meat or slab bacon that are hung on clean, sanitized hooks or placed on clean, sanitized racks;\n\n3. Whole, uncut, processed meats such as country hams, and smoked or cured sausages that are placed on clean, sanitized racks;\n\n4. Food being cooled as specified under 2VAC5-585-810 B 2; or\n\n5. Shellstock.\n\nC. Frozen, commercially processed and packaged raw animal food may be stored or displayed with or above frozen, commercially processed and packaged, ready-to-eat food.","path":["Title 2. Agriculture","Agency 5. Department of Agriculture And Consumer Services","Chapter 585. Retail Food Establishment Regulations","Part III. Food","Article 3. Protection from Contamination after Receiving"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title2/agency5/chapter585/section470/","current_through":"2026 Regular Session (effective July 1, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:44:59Z","sha256":"58a77b4b4e0c478512ce7c5a9715b1ff239b8d83fca069331af95bebe864fc27","source_id":"us-va-vac","stale":false,"prev":"us-va/2vac5-585-460","next":"us-va/2vac5-585-480"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}