All food and drinks must be of safe quality and must be stored, prepared, distributed, and served under sanitary and safe conditions, including but not limited to the following:
  (1) You must sanitize food service equipment, dishes, and utensils after each use;
  (2) If your child-care center lacks adequate facilities for sanitizing dishes and utensils, you must use only disposable, single-use items;
  (3) You must wash re-useable napkins, bibs, and tablecloths after each use;
  (4) You must discard single-service napkins, bibs, dishes, and utensils after use;
  (5) Caregivers with open wounds and/or any injury that inhibits hand washing, such as casts, bandages, or braces, must not prepare food;
  (6) You must serve children's food on plates, napkins, or other sanitary holders such as a high chair tray, and you must not place food on a bare table or eating surface, which includes the floor;
  (7) You must not serve foods that present a risk of choking for infants and toddlers;
  (8) You must cover all food stored in the refrigerator;
  (9) When meals are prepared at the child-care center, the food preparation area must be separated from the eating, play, and bathroom areas. You must not use the food preparation area as a passageway while food is being prepared; and
  (10) You must not store poisonous or toxic materials and cleaning supplies with food.

Source Note: The provisions of this §746.3317 adopted to be effective September 1, 2003, 28 TexReg 1402; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909