What is a TCS Food?
Is food that requires Time and Temperature for Control. It was formally known as Potentially Hazardous Food. It is food that is susceptible to bacteria growth if left in the ‘Danger Zone’. The temperature danger zone is between 41? and 135?—a temperature range in which pathogens grow well. Harmful microorganisms can grow to levels high enough to cause illness within four hours.
List of Food subject to Time-Temperature Control for Safety or TCS Foods)
Source: FDA Food Code doc from 2011
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