Baylen Linnekin on California Requiring Food Workers To Wear Gloves

Chefs and bartenders in California
are aghast over a new law that prevents them from touching the food
they will serve to customers. State food handling regulations
previously required foodservice employees to “minimize bare hand
and arm contact with non-prepackaged food that is in a
ready-to-eat-form[.]” The new law “instead requires food employees
to minimize bard hand and arm contact with exposed food that is not
in a ready-to-eat form.” The “ready-to-eat” terminology means “food
that is edible without additional preparation to achieve food
safety.”

That sounds complex.

And, writes Baylen Linnekin, while most may escape the new
requirements, they still face burdensome paperwork and the threat
of selective enforcement.

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