Ohio food temperature chart
The temperatures and times in the Ohio Uniform Food Safety Code (Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3717-1), effective September 5, 2024. Each figure links to the rule it comes from. Read the rule in full before you rely on it: most have exceptions this chart leaves out.
Cooking
| Food or step | Temperature | Time | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw eggs broken for a consumer's order and served at once; fish and intact meat | 145°F (63°C) or above | 15 seconds | 3717-1-03.3(A)(1)(a) |
| Ratites and nonintact meats; comminuted fish and game animals; raw eggs not prepared to order | 155°F (68°C) | 17 seconds (or 145°F for 3 minutes, 150°F for 1 minute, 158°F instantaneous) | 3717-1-03.3(A)(1)(b) |
| Poultry, baluts, stuffed fish, meat, pasta, poultry or ratites, and stuffing containing them | 165°F (74°C) or above | Less than 1 second (instantaneous) | 3717-1-03.3(A)(1)(c) |
| Whole meat roasts, including beef, corned beef, lamb, pork and cured pork roasts such as ham | By the rule’s chart, from 130°F (54.4°C) | From 112 minutes at 130°F, shorter at higher temperatures | 3717-1-03.3(A)(4) |
| Raw animal foods cooked in a microwave oven (also rotated or stirred, and covered) | 165°F (74°C) in all parts of the food | Stand covered 2 minutes after cooking | 3717-1-03.3(B) |
| Plant foods cooked for hot holding | 135°F (57°C) | — | 3717-1-03.3(C) |
Official text: OAC 3717-1-03.3 at codes.ohio.gov
Reheating for hot holding
| Food or step | Temperature | Time | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food that was cooked, cooled and is reheated for hot holding (leftover unsliced roasts may instead use the roast chart’s oven and time conditions) | 165°F (74°C) in all parts of the food | 15 seconds | 3717-1-03.3(I)(1) |
| Reheated in a microwave oven (then rotated or stirred, covered, and left to stand covered) | 165°F (74°C) in all parts of the food | Stand covered 2 minutes after reheating | 3717-1-03.3(I)(2) |
| Ready-to-eat food commercially processed and packaged in an inspected plant | 135°F (57°C) or above | — | 3717-1-03.3(I)(3) |
| Any reheating for hot holding: time spent between 41°F (5°C) and the reheating temperature | From 41°F (5°C) | No more than 2 hours | 3717-1-03.3(I)(4) |
Official text: OAC 3717-1-03.3 at codes.ohio.gov
Hot and cold holding
| Food or step | Temperature | Time | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hot holding (roasts cooked by the roast chart, or reheated as in 03.3(I)(1), may be held at 130°F (54°C) or above) | 135°F (57°C) or above | — | 3717-1-03.4(F)(1)(a) |
| Cold holding | 41°F (5°C) or less | — | 3717-1-03.4(F)(1)(b) |
| Eggs not treated to destroy all viable Salmonellae: the air in the refrigerated equipment they are stored in | 45°F (7°C) or less | — | 3717-1-03.4(F)(2) |
Official text: OAC 3717-1-03.4 at codes.ohio.gov
Cooling
| Food or step | Temperature | Time | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooked food, first stage | 135°F (57°C) to 70°F (21°C) | Within 2 hours | 3717-1-03.4(D)(1)(a) |
| Cooked food, in total | 135°F (57°C) to 41°F (5°C) or less | Within 6 hours in total | 3717-1-03.4(D)(1)(b) |
| Food prepared from ingredients at ambient temperature, such as reconstituted foods and canned tuna | To 41°F (5°C) or less | Within 4 hours | 3717-1-03.4(D)(2) |
| Food lawfully received above 41°F (5°C) | To 41°F (5°C) or less | Within 4 hours | 3717-1-03.4(D)(3) |
Official text: OAC 3717-1-03.4 at codes.ohio.gov
Receiving
| Food or step | Temperature | Time | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Refrigerated food (except raw eggs, milk, and food whose distribution law sets another temperature, such as red meat and molluscan shellfish) | 41°F (5°C) or below | — | 3717-1-03.1(H)(1) |
| Raw eggs: the air in the refrigerated equipment they arrive in | 45°F (7°C) or less | — | 3717-1-03.1(H)(1) |
| Milk: internal temperature | Not more than 45°F (7°C) | — | 3717-1-03.1(H)(1) |
| Food cooked as the code requires and received hot | 135°F (57°C) or above | — | 3717-1-03.1(H)(2) |
| Food labeled frozen and shipped frozen by a food processing plant | Received frozen | — | 3717-1-03.1(H)(3) |
Official text: OAC 3717-1-03.1 at codes.ohio.gov
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