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2022 Food Code Change Resources
September 19, 2022
Delayed due to Covid, March of 2022 marked the implementation of regular updates to Washington State's Retail Food Code. The March implementation began with a 6 month education period with the exception of of the new Certified Food Protection Manager which was granted an education phase of 1 year (March 2023). At the time of this posting, the resources on this page are THE MOST current revisions -they haven't even been released publicly by the Department of Health.
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