---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 112.129"
title: "21"
number: "112.129"
heading: "What requirements apply to toilet facilities?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/112.129"
---

# §112.129. What requirements apply to toilet facilities?


All of the following requirements apply to toilet facilities:

- (a) You must provide personnel with adequate, readily accessible toilet facilities, including toilet facilities readily accessible to growing areas during harvesting activities.
- (b) Your toilet facilities must be designed, located, and maintained to:
  - (1) Prevent contamination of covered produce, food contact surfaces, areas used for a covered activity, water sources, and water distribution systems with human waste;
  - (2) Be directly accessible for servicing, be serviced and cleaned at a frequency sufficient to ensure suitability of use, and be kept supplied with toilet paper; and
  - (3) **Provide for the sanitary disposal of waste and toilet paper.**
- (c) During growing activities that take place in a fully-enclosed building, and during covered harvesting, packing, or holding activities, you must provide a hand-washing station in sufficiently close proximity to toilet facilities to make it practical for persons who use the toilet facility to wash their hands.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321, 331, 342, 350h, 371; 42 U.S.C. 243, 264, 271.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 74547, Nov. 27, 2015, unless otherwise noted.