A supplier offers a manager a great deal on home-canned salsa and shellfish harvested by a friend without tags. Under the Food Code, the manager should:
Explanation
All food, including canned goods and shellfish, must come from approved, reputable, regulated sources, so both offers must be refused. A home kitchen is not an approved source no matter how clean it is, and home-canned low-acid foods are the classic vehicle for botulism. The approved-source rule is not aimed only at large canneries — it is precisely what bars a home kitchen's product from a restaurant shelf. Freshness and a local harvest are not the issue with the shellfish either: molluscan shellfish must arrive from a certified dealer with shellstock identification tags naming the harvest water, and an untagged harvest can never be traced.
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