SELF-ASSESSMENT, ITEM 2
ITEM
REASON
IMPORTANCE
ACTION
Improper
When checking milk
Milk is a potentially
Record a milk dispenser
dispensers, look for:
hazardous food and must
temperature
with improper
control of
temperature on the
be kept at the proper
Maintenance of the
milk
inspection checklist, item
temperature to inhibit the
proper temperature,
dispensers
03, and tell the manager
growth of harmful
which is 45F or
microorganisms.
is rated as
for immediate correction.
Category 5.
below.
Incremented
Record a milk dispenser
The lack of a
Presence of
thermometers are used to
without a thermometer on
incremented
determine that dispensers
thermometer
the inspection checklist,
are maintaining the milk
is rated as
item 05.
thermometers.
at the proper
Category 1.
temperature.
Proper length of the
Record a dispensing tube
Improper
dispensing tube.
of improper length on the
Dispensing tubes should
inspection checklist, item
dispensing
be no longer than one-
09.
tube length
is rated as
half inch from the cut-off
Category 2.
valve.
MD0182
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