4-4 LOCATION AND INSTALLATION 4-401 Location 4-401.11 Equipment, Clothes Washers and Dryers, and Storage Cabinets, Contamination Prevention. (A) Except as specified in ¶ (B) of this section, Equipment, a cabinet used for the storage of Food, or a cabinet that is used to store cleaned and Sanitized Equipment, Utensils, laundered Linens, and Single-Service and Single-Use Articles may not be located: (1) In locker rooms; (2) In toilet rooms; (3) In garbage rooms; (4) In mechanical rooms; (5) Under sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips; Under leaking water lines including leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads or under lines (6) on which water has condensed; (7) Under open stairwells; or (8) Under other sources of contamination. (B) A storage cabinet used for Linens or Single-Service or Single-Use Articles may be stored in a locker room. (C) If a mechanical clothes washer or dryer is provided, it shall be located so that the washer or dryer is protected from contamination and only where there is no exposed Food; clean Equipment, Utensils, and Linens; and unwrapped Single-Service and Single-Use Articles. 4-402 Installation 4-402.11 Fixed Equipment, Spacing or Sealing. (A) Equipment that is fixed because it is not Easily Movable shall be installed so that it is: (1) Spaced to allow access for cleaning along the sides, behind, and above the Equipment; (2) Spaced from adjoining Equipment, walls, and ceilings a distance of not more than 1 millimeter or one thirty-second inch; or (3) Sealed to adjoining Equipment or walls, if the Equipment is exposed to spillage or seepage. (B) Counter-Mounted Equipment that is not Easily Movable shall be installed to allow cleaning of the Equipment and areas underneath and around the Equipment by being: (1) Sealed; or (2) Elevated on legs as specified under ¶ 4-402.12(D). 4-402.12 Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing.
4-4 LOCATION AND INSTALLATION 4-401 Location 4-401.11 Equipment, Clothes Washers and Dryers, and Storage Cabinets, Contamination Prevention. (A) Except as specified in ¶ (B) of this section, Equipment, a cabinet used for the storage of Food, or a cabinet that is used to store cleaned and Sanitized Equipment, Utensils, laundered Linens, and Single-Service and Single-Use Articles may not be located: (1) In locker rooms; (2) In toilet rooms; (3) In garbage rooms; (4) In mechanical rooms; (5) Under sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips; (6) Under leaking water lines including leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads or under lines on which water has condensed; (7) Under open stairwells; or (8) Under other sources of contamination. (B) A storage cabinet used for Linens or Single-Service or Single-Use Articles may be stored in a locker room. (C) If a mechanical clothes washer or dryer is provided, it shall be located so that the washer or dryer is protected from contamination and only where there is no exposed Food; clean Equipment, Utensils, and Linens; and unwrapped Single-Service and Single-Use Articles. 4-402 Installation 4-402.11 Fixed Equipment, Spacing or Sealing. (A) Equipment that is fixed because it is not Easily Movable shall be installed so that it is: (1) Spaced to allow access for cleaning along the sides, behind, and above the Equipment; (2) Spaced from adjoining Equipment, walls, and ceilings a distance of not more than 1 millimeter or one thirty-second inch; or (3) Sealed to adjoining Equipment or walls, if the Equipment is exposed to spillage or seepage. (B) Counter-Mounted Equipment that is not Easily Movable shall be installed to allow cleaning of the Equipment and areas underneath and around the Equipment by being: (1) Sealed; or (2) Elevated on legs as specified under ¶ 4-402.12(D). 4-402.12 Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing.