Anyone have information on Medical Testing being conducted in a Dining Facility between meals?

You need to speak with Preventive Medicine and an Environmental Safety Officer. I don't know about specific regs....but I can say as Preventive Medicine....I would NOT have agreed with this and would have provided a hard NOT RECOMMENDED decision. That being said, Preventive Medicine can only recommend, it cannot enforce policy. Ultimately, it's the Commander's decision.....but doing testing in a DFAC between meals....even with decon actions.....is just playing too close to the fire.

However, the one caveat is that as long as NO ONE is going anywhere near the kitchen or storage areas where plates, utensils, etc. are used for eating, then I could see why it was allowed.

Again, not something I would have recommended, but if that was the final call I would have had a long list of recommendations to reduce risk of cross contamination/exposure.

The test itself takes at least 3 days to give result so there is no real point in doing it, you could be a negative on the monday test and already be infected the next day. I am on JBLM and so far I haven’t heard anything about covid testing being done at the dfacs here so far

That should fall to the preventive med team. Testing should not be necessary, just cleaning with approved cleaners. Unit field sanitation teams should be working with the preventive med team to make sure cleaning standards are met. There is testing kits to ensure cleaning solutions contain adequate chlorine to kill viruses, as chlorine levels degrade quickly. Again, field san team should be the boots on the ground doing this work. A battalion field san team should have trained, available personnel from any MOS but it's a good idea to have a medic and a cook, preferably NCOs, on the team.