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efinitions provided in the Operations Manual areprovided to clarify terminology commonly used in publichealth.3.1.2The terms defined are shown in relation to OperationsManual chapters where they are used, but they may alsopertain to other chapters in this manual.3.2DefinitionsAuthority"USPHS or PHS" means the U.S. Public Health Service.Potable Water"Air-break" means a piping arrangement in which a drainfrom a fixture, appliance, or device discharges indirectlyinto another fixture, receptacle, or interceptor at a pointbelow the flood-level rim."Air-gap" means the unobstructed vertical distancethrough the free atmosphere between the lowest openingfrom any pipe or faucet supplying water to a tank,plumbing fixture, or other device and the flood-level rim ofthe receptacle or receiving fixture. The air gap must be atleast twice the diameter of the supply pipe or faucet or atleast 3 cm (1 inch), whichever is greater."Atmospheric vacuum breaker" means an approvedbackflow prevention device that is necessary on a potablewater outlet designed for an attachment that does nothave a shutoff downstream from the attachment topreclude the possibility of backflow."Backflow" means the flow of water or other liquids,3-12000

mixtures, or substance into the distribution pipes of apotable supply of water from any source or sources otherthan the source of potable water supply. Back-siphonageis one form of backflow."Backflow, check, or non-return valve" means amechanical device installed in a waste line to prevent thereversal of flow under conditions of back pressure. In thecheck valve type, the flap should swing into a recess whenthe line is flowing full, to preclude obstructing the flow."Backflow preventer" means an approved backflowprevention device that is necessary on a potable wateroutlet."Back-siphonage" means the flowing back of used,contaminated, or polluted water from a plumbing fixture orvessel or other source into a water supply pipe as a resultof negative pressure in the pipe."Black water" means wastewater from water closets(toilets)."Cross-connection" means any physical connectionbetween two otherwise separate piping systems thatallows a flow from one system to the other."Gray water" means all domestic wastewater includingwater from showers, sinks, laundry, and equipment drains,but not wastewater from toilets."Halogen" means the group of elements includingfluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine used for thedisinfection of water."Harbor area" means that portion of a harbor set asidefor vessel anchorage or for ports including wharves, piers,quays, and service areas, the boundaries are the highwater shore line, and others as determined by legaldefinition, citation of coordinates, or other means."Hose connection vacuum breaker" means anapproved backflow preventer that attaches directly to ahose bib, has a single check with an atmospheric vent andis not designed for continuous pressure applications."mg/L" means milligrams per liter, which is the metricequivalent of parts per million (ppm)."Non-potable fresh water (Technical water)" means3-22000

fresh water intended for laundry use or for washing decksin areas other than the vessel’s hospital or food serviceand food storage areas."Pollution" means the presence in water of any foreignsubstance (organic, inorganic, radiologic, or biologic) thattends to degrade water quality to create a health hazard."Potable water" means fresh water intended for drinking,washing, bathing, or showering; for use in the vessel’shospital; for handling, preparing, or cooking food; and forcleaning food storage and preparation areas, utensils, andequipment."Potable water tanks" means all tanks into which potablewater is bunkered or produced for distribution and fromwhich it is used as potable water."Reduced pressure backflow preventer" means anapproved backflow device used in high hazard situationsthat has two independent check valves with anintermediate vacuum breaker and relief valve."Sewage" means any liquid waste containing animal orvegetable matter in suspension or solution, includingliquids containing chemicals in solution."Specialty backflow preventer" means an approvedbackflow device used in low hazard situations that has twoindependent check valves with an intermediate vacuumbreaker and relief valve.Food SafetyAdditive.(a) "Food additive" has the meaning stated in theFederal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, §201(s) and 21CFR 170.(b) "Color additive" has the meaning stated in theFederal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, §201(t) and 21CFR 70."Adulterated" has the meaning stated in the FederalFood, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, §402."Approved" means acceptable to the VSP based on adetermination of conformity with principles, practices, andgenerally recognized standards that protect public health3-32000

such as ANSI/NSF standards, ASSE standards, federalregulations or equivalent international standards andregulations."aw" means water activity which measures the freemoisture in a food. It is the quotient of the water vaporpressure of the substance divided by the vapor pressureof pure water at the same temperature."Beverage" means a liquid for drinking, including water."Bottled drinking water" means water that is sealed inbottles, packages, or other containers and offered for saleand that is safe for human consumption, including bottledmineral water."Certification number" means a unique combination ofletters and numbers assigned by a shellfish-controlauthority to a molluscan shellfish dealer according to theprovisions of the National Shellfish Sanitation Program."CIP" means cleaned in place by circulating or flowingmechanically through a piping system of a detergentsolution, water rinse, and sanitizing solution onto or overequipment surfaces that require cleaning, such as themethod used, in part, to clean and sanitize a frozendessert machine."CIP" does not include the cleaning of EQUIPMENT such asband saws, slicers, or mixers that are subjected to inplace manual cleaning without the use of a CIP system."CFR" means Code of Federal Regulations. Citations inthis Code to the CFR refer sequentially to the Title, Part,and Section numbers, such as 21 CFR 178.1010 refers toTitle 21, Part 178, Section 1010."Code of Federal Regulations" means the compilation ofthe general and permanent rules published in the FederalRegister by the executive departments and agencies ofthe federal government which:(a) Is published annually by the U.S. Government PrintingOffice; and(b) Contains FDA rules in 21 CFR, USDA rules in 7 CFRand 9 CFR, EPA rules in 40 CFR, and Wildlife andFisheries rules in 50 CFR.3-42000

"Comminuted" means reduced in size by methodsincluding chopping, flaking, grinding, or mincing."Comminuted" includes fish or meat products that arereduced in size and restructured or reformulated such asgefilte fish, gyros, ground beef, and sausage; and amixture of 2 or more types of meat that have beenreduced in size and combined, such as sausages madefrom 2 or more meats."Confirmed disease outbreak" means a foodborne orwaterborne disease outbreak in which laboratory analysisof appropriate specimens identifies a causative agent andepidemiologic analysis implicates the food or water as thesource of the illness."Consumer" means a person who is a member of thepublic, takes possession of food, is not functioning in thecapacity of an operator of a food establishment or foodprocessing plant, and does not offer the food for resale."Corrosion-resistant material" means a material thatmaintains acceptable surface cleanability characteristicsunder prolonged influence of the food to be contacted, thenormal use of cleaning compounds and sanitizingsolutions, and other conditions of the environment wherethe material is used."Critical-control point" means a point or procedure in aspecific food system where loss of control may result in anunacceptable health risk."Critical limit" means the maximum or minimum value ata critical-control point to which a physical, biologic, orchemical parameter must be controlled to minimize theoccurrence of risk from an identified food safety hazard."Drinking water" means water that meets 40 CFR 141National Primary Drinking Water Regulations."Drinking water" is traditionally known as "potablewater.""Drinking water" includes the term "water" except wherethe term used connotes that the water is not potable, suchas "boiler water," "mop water," "rainwater," "wastewater,"and "nondrinking" water."Dry-storage area" means a room or area designated for3-52000

the storage of packaged or containerized bulk food that isnot potentially hazardous and dry goods such as singleservice items."Easily cleanable" means a characteristic of a surfacethat:(a) Allows effective removal of soil by normal cleaningmethods;(b) Is dependent on the material, design, construction, andinstallation of the surface; and(c) Varies with the likelihood of the surface's role inintroducing pathogenic or toxigenic agents or othercontaminants into food based on the surface's approvedplacement, purpose, and use."Easily cleanable" includes a tiered application of thecriteria that qualify the surface as easily cleanable asspecified under Subparagraph (a) of this definition todifferent situations in which varying degrees of cleanabilityare required such as:(a) The appropriateness of stainless steel for a foodpreparation surface, compared with the lack of need forstainless steel to be used for floors or for tables used forconsumer dining; or(b) The need for a different degree of cleanability for autilitarian attachment or accessory in the kitchen,compared with a decorative attachment or accessory inthe consumer dining area."Easily movable" means:(a) Portable; mounted on casters, gliders, or rollers; orprovided with a mechanical means to safely tilt a unit ofequipment for cleaning; and(b) Having no utility connection, a utility connection thatdisconnects quickly, or a flexible utility connection line ofsufficient length to allow the equipment to be moved forcleaning of the equipment and adjacent area."EPA" means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."Equipment" means an article used in the operation of a3-62000

food establishment, such as a freezer, grinder, hood, icemaker, meat block, mixer, oven, reach-in refrigerator,scale, sink, slicer, stove, table, temperature measuringdevice for ambient air, vending machine, or warewashingmachine."Equipment" does not include items used for handling orstoring large quantities of packaged foods that arereceived from a supplier in a cased or overwrapped lot,such as hand trucks, forklifts, dollies, pallets, racks, andskids."Fish" means fresh or saltwater finfish, crustaceans, andother forms of aquatic life (including alligator, frog, aquaticturtle, jellyfish, sea cucumber, and sea urchin and the roeof such animals) other than birds or mammals, and allmollusks, if such animal life is intended for humanconsumption."Fish" includes an edible human food product derived inwhole or in part from fish, including fish that have beenprocessed in any manner."Food" means a raw, cooked, or processed ediblesubstance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or intendedfor use or for sale in whole or in part for humanconsumption, or chewing gum."Foodborne disease outbreak" means an incident inwhich:(a) 2 or more nonrelated persons experience a similarillness after ingesting a common food; and(b) Epidemiologic analysis implicates the food as thesource of the illness."Foodborne disease outbreak" also includes a singlecase of illness such as 1 person ill from botulism orchemical poisoning."Food-contact surface" means:(a) A surface of equipment or a utensil with which foodnormally comes into contact; or(b) A surface of equipment or a utensil from which foodmay drain, drip, or splash into a food, or onto a surface3-72000

normally in contact with food."Food employee" means a person working withunpackaged food, food equipment or utensils, or foodcontact surfaces."Food-processing plant" means a commercial operationthat manufactures, packages, labels, or stores food forhuman consumption and does not provide food directly toa consumer."Game animal" means an animal, the products of whichare food, that is not classified as cattle, sheep, swine,goat, horse, mule, or other equine in 9 CFR Subchapter A- Mandatory Meat Inspection, Part 301, as Poultry in 9CFR Subchapter C - Mandatory Poultry ProductsInspection, Part 381, or as fish as defined underSubparagraph 1-201.10(B)(25)."Game animal" includes mammals such as reindeer, elk,deer, antelope, water buffalo, bison, rabbit, squirrel,opossum, raccoon, nutria, or muskrat, and nonaquaticreptiles such as land snakes."Game animal" does not include ratites such as ostrich,emu, and rhea."Grade A standards" means the requirements of thePHS/FDA "Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance" and"Grade A Condensed and Dry Milk Ordinance" with whichcertain fluid and dry milk and milk products comply."General-use pesticide" means a pesticide that is notclassified by EPA for restricted use as specified in 40 CFR152.175."HACCP plan" means a written document that delineatesthe formal procedures for following the Hazard AnalysisCritical Control Point principles developed by The NationalAdvisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods."Hazard" means a biologic, chemical, or physical propertythat may cause an unacceptable consumer health risk."Hermetically sealed container" means a container thatis designed and intended to be secure against the entry ofmicroorganisms and, in the case of low-acid cannedfoods, to maintain the commercial sterility of its contentsafter processing.3-82000

"Imminent health hazard" means a significant threat ordanger to health that is considered to exist when evidenceis sufficient to show that a product, practice, circumstance,or event creates a situation that requires immediatecorrection or cessation of operation to prevent injurybased on the number of potential injuries, and the nature,severity, and duration of the anticipated injury."Injected" means manipulating a meat so that infectiousor toxigenic microoganisms may be introduced from itssurface to its interior through tenderizing with deeppenetration or injecting the meat such as with juices whichmay be referred to as "injecting," "pinning," or "stitchpumping.”"Kitchenware" means food preparation and storageutensils."Law" means applicable local, state, federal, or otherequivalent international statutes, regulations, andordinances."Linens" means fabric items such as cloth hampers, clothnapkins, table cloths, wiping cloths, and work garmentsincluding cloth gloves."Meat" means the flesh of animals used as food includingthe dressed flesh of cattle, swine, sheep, or goats andother edible animals, except fish, poultry, and wild gameanimals."Molluscan shellfish" means any edible species of freshor frozen oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops or edibleportions thereof, except when the scallop product consistsonly of the shucked adductor muscle."Packaged" means bottled, canned, cartoned, securelybagged, or securely wrapped, whether packaged in a foodestablishment or a food-processing plant."Packaged" does not include a wrapper, carry-out box, orother nondurable container used to containerize food tothe facilitate food protection during service and receipt ofthe food by the consumer."Person in charge" means the individual present on avessel who is responsible for the food operation at thetime of inspection such as the Food and BeverageManager, Food Manager, or Chef.3-92000

"Personal-care items" means items or substances thatmay be poisonous, toxic, or a source of contamination andare used to maintain or enhance a person's health,hygiene, or appearance."Personal-care items" include items such as medicines;first aid supplies; and other items such as cosmetics, andtoiletries such as toothpaste and mouthwash."pH" means the symbol for the negative logarithm of thehydrogen ion concentration, which is a measure of thedegree of acidity or basicity of a solution.Values between 0 and 7 indicate acidity and valuesbetween 7 and 14 indicate alkalinity. The value for puredistilled water is 7, which is considered neutral."Physical facilities" means the structure and interiorsurfaces of a vessel’s food storage, preparation andservice areas, including accessories such as soap andtowel dispensers, and attachments, such as light fixturesand heating or air conditioning system vents."Plumbing fixture" means a receptacle or device that:(a) Is permanently or temporarily connected to the waterdistribution system of the vessel and demands a supply ofwater from the system; or(b) Discharges used water, waste materials, or sewagedirectly or indirectly to the drainage system of the vessel."Plumbing system" means the water supply anddistribution pipes; plumbing fixtures and traps; soil, waste,and vent pipes; sanitary sewer drains and vessel drains,including their respective connections, devices, andappurtenances within the vessel; and water-treatingequipment."Poisonous or toxic materials" means substances thatare not intended for ingestion and are included in 4categories:(a) Cleaners and sanitizers, which include cleaning andsanitizing agents and agents such as caustics, acids,drying agents, polishes, and other chemicals;(b) Pesticides except sanitizers, which include substances3-102000

such as insecticides and rodenticides;(c) Substances necessary for the operation andmaintenance of the establishment such as nonfood-gradelubricants and personal care items that may bedeleterious to health; and(d) Substances that are not necessary for the operationand maintenance of the vessel and are on the vessel,such as petroleum products and paints."Potentially hazardous food" means a food that isnatural or synthetic and that requires temperature controlbecause it is in a form capable of supporting:(a) The rapid and progressive growth of infectious ortoxigenic microorganisms;(b) The growth and toxin production of Clostridiumbotulinum; or(c) In raw shell eggs, the growth of Salmonellaenteritidis."Potentially hazardous food" includes an animal food (afood of animal origin) that is raw or heat-treated; a food ofplant origin that is heat-treated or consists of raw seedsprouts; cut melons; and garli

Program (VSP) in the 1970's as a cooperative activity with the cruise ship industry. The program assists the cruise ship industry in fulfilling its responsibility for developing and implementing comprehensive sanitation programs in order to minimize the risk of gastrointestinal diseases. Every vessel that has a foreign itinerary and carries 13 .