Noncontinuous cooking of raw animal foods

Raw animal foods that are cooked using a noncontinuous cooking process shall be: 1. Subject to an initial heating process that is no longer than 60 minutes in duration; P 2. Immediately after initial heating, cooled according to the time and temperature parameters specified for cooked time/temperature control for safety food under 2VAC5-585-800 A; P 3. After cooling, held frozen or cold as specified for time/temperature control for safety food under 2VAC5-585-820 A 2; P 4. Prior to sale or service, cooked using a process that heats all parts of the food to a temperature and for a time as designated in 2VAC5-585-700 A through C; P 5. Cooled according to the time and temperature parameters specified for cooked time/temperature control for safety food under 2VAC5-585-800 A if not either hot held as specified under 2VAC5-585-820 A 1, served immediately, or held using time as a public health control as specified under 2VAC5-585-850 after complete cooking; P and 6. Prepared and stored according to written procedures that: a. Have obtained prior approval from the department; Pf b. Are maintained in the food establishment and are available to the department upon request; Pf c. Describe how the requirements specified under subdivisions 1 through 5 of this section are to be monitored and documented by the permit holder and the corrective actions to be taken if the requirements are not met; Pf d. Describe how the foods, after initial heating but prior to complete cooking, are to be marked or otherwise identified as foods that must be cooked as specified under subdivision 4 of this section prior to being offered for sale or service; Pf and e. Describe how the foods, after initial heating but prior to cooking as specified in subdivision 4 of this section, are to be separated from ready-to-eat foods as specified under 2VAC5-585-470 A. Pf Statutory Authority: § 3.2-5121 of the Code of Virginia. Historical Notes: Derived from Virginia Register Volume 32, Issue 22 , eff. July 12, 2016; amended, Virginia Register Volume 41, Issue 10 , eff. February 13, 2025.