Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 23 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Chapter 10 - RENDERING AND PET FEED MANUFACTURING
Section 23-10-004 - Sanitation and Operation
Current through March 20, 2024
All pet feed manufacturing and rendering establishments shall be maintained and operated in a sanitary manner.
004.01 All walls, floors, and equipment shall be of a type that can be readily and easily cleaned and sanitized.
004.02 All floors, walls, ceilings, stairways, handrails, piping, window ledges and other open surfaces shall be kept free of litter, or any other accumulations and shall be routinely cleaned and sanitized.
004.03 All rendering establishments shall have sufficient live steam to properly clean, sanitize and disinfect all areas and equipment. An ample supply of water at not less than 180 degrees Farhrenheit shall be furnished and used for the cleaning of floors, walls, handrails, stairways, equipment and the like.
004.04 All outside areas of the establishment premise shall be kept free from any accumulation of bones, horns, offal, rumen contents, weeds and any other debris that might create a nuisance, contribute to unsanitary conditions or attract vermin, insects or birds. All operations shall be in conformance with local municipal ordinances and county resolutions.
004.05 Persons working in any establishment shall maintain a reasonable personal hygiene.
004.06 All tools and equipment when used in handling or conveying products shall be kept clean and in a sanitary condition.
004.07 All interbuilding connecting walkways or areas between raw product areas and processing or finished product areas shall be kept clean and free from any residue from adjacent areas at all times.
004.08 Signs in large and conspicuous letters shall be posted at all entrances, restricting all unauthorized persons. Unauthorized persons are all those other than employees and management of the establishment, their invited guests, and personnel of the Bureau on official business.
004.09 Hides shall not accumulated past normal working time in the raw product area but shall be stored in a compartment separate from the raw product area. All hides shall be salted or treated prior to storage in the hide storage are, in accordance with sound manufacturing practices.
004.10 Sufficient temperature
Sufficient temperature shall be employed in cooking livestock, poultry, fish or products of the same order to render such products free of any infectious, contagious or otherwise transmissible disease that may have been present in the raw product. A product found to be improperly cooked or to have become contaminated with a pathogenic organism after cooking may be required to be reprocessed or destroyed by burning, or buried at least four (4) feet under the surface of the ground.
004.11 All fluids from the establishment, including washings from trucks, containers and equipment, shall drain into an acceptable sewer, cesspool or lagoon. Lagoons shall be conspicuously posted as containing waste products from the establishment, contaminated, and unfit for human use, and shall be fenced, so as to exclude livestock.
004.12 No animal suspected to have died from toxic substances may be used in pet feed manufacturing or rendering.
004.13 All animal product prepared for use as pet food shall be decharacterized with a decharacterizing agent approved by the bureau.
004.14 Records
Records shall be kept on all products and carcasses received by establishments and shall include numbers, species, the farm or other premise where the product or carcass was picked up and the date when picked up. These records shall be available for examination by any authorized representative of the Bureau and shall be maintained for one year.
004.15 Sampling of any product by an inspector may be a part of any inspection procedure and a reasonable sample may be taken for the purpose of disease or sanitation survey or control at no cost to the Department. In case sizeable samples may be required, the inspector shall pay or offer to pay for such samples.
004.16 Dressing rooms and toilet facilities shall be maintained in a sanitary condition. Such areas shall be separate from all product handling areas of the establishment.
004.17 Each establishment shall provide sufficient natural or artificial light, or both, at all places and at all times of the day, of good quantity and well distributed so as to be adequate for proper conduct of establishment operations. Sufficient ventilation shall be provided for all rooms and compartments so as to insure a sanitary and healthful condition.
004.18 The water supply shall be ample and potable with adequate facilities for distribution throughout the plant. An ample supply of hot water (not less than 105?F.) shall be available for cleaning of equipment, floors, walls, etc. Hot water shall be delivered under pressure to sufficient, convenient outlets to accomplish a thorough cleanup.
004.19 Every practical precaution shall be taken to exclude insects, rodents and other vermin from the facilities.
004.20 The entire area and equipment of the establishment in which carcasses are received and processed shall be thoroughly cleaned after each day's operations.
