Rules Update

Additional Resources

The Washington Hospitality Association (WHA) produced ten short webinars that break down featured topics in the updated food code into “Quick Bites.”

Individual webinars are available below, each covering a different segment of the new food code.

• Series Overview
• Employee Health
• Date Marking
• Certified Food Protect Manager
• Cleaning & Sanitizing
• Pet Dogs
• Policies & Procedures
• Bare Hand Contact
• Meat, Fish, Poultry, Shellfish, & Produce
• Active Managerial Control

For a more detailed breakdown of new changes to the retail food code, review the Washington State Department of Health’s New Food Code Training presentations, which include the following topics:

• Date Marking Food Code Snippets Presentation - Date Marking (wa.gov) (PDF)
  • Additional material:Tacoma-Pierce Date marking infographic, also available in Kmher, Korean, Russian, Samoan, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukranian and Vietnamese.

• Certified Food Protection Manager 2022 Food Code Snippets Presentation - Certified Managers (CFPM) and Active Managerial Control (AMC) (wa.gov) (PDF)

• Employee Health 2022 Food Code Snippets Presentation - Employee Health & Bare Hand Contact (wa.gov) (PDF)

• Refillable Reusables 2022 Food Code Snippets Presentation - REFILLABLE REUSABLES (wa.gov) (PDF)

Toolkit

The new retail food code requires the following written plans to be kept on premises. The Washington State Department of Health published the templates below for restaurants to use and adapt to their needs. 

• Vomit and Diarrhea Clean-up Plan
• Date Marking
• Pet Dogs on Premises
• Refilling Consumer-Owned Containers

Washington Department of Health has additional resources available under Active Managerial Control Materials in the following languages - English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Tagalog, Vietnamese