Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
When required by the veterinary supervisor, the following
facilities and conditions, and such others as may be found to be essential to
efficient conduct of inspection and maintenance of sanitary conditions, shall
be provided by each official establishment:
(1) -
(i)
Satisfactory pens, equipment and assistants for conducting antemortem
inspection and for separating, marking and holding apart from passed livestock
those marked "Pa. Suspect" and those marked "Pa. Condemned."
(ii) Pens, alleys, and runways shall be
paved, drained and supplied with adequate hose connections for cleanup
purposes.
(2) Sufficient
light to be adequate for proper conduct of inspection.
(3) -
(i)
Racks, receptacles or other suitable devices for retaining such parts as the
head, tongue, tail, thymus gland and viscera, and all parts and blood to be
used in the preparation of meat food products or medical products, until after
the postmortem examination is completed, in order that they may be identified
in case of condemnation of the carcass.
(ii) Equipment, trucks and receptacles for
the handling of viscera of slaughtered animals so as to prevent contact with
the floor.
(iii) Trucks, racks,
marked receptacles, tables and other necessary equipment for the separate and
sanitary handling of carcasses or parts passed for cooking.
(4) Tables, benches and other
equipment on which inspection is to be performed of such design, material and
construction as to enable program employes to conduct their inspection in a
ready, efficient and clean manner.
(5) -
(i)
Watertight metal trucks or receptacles for holding and handling diseased
carcasses and parts, so constructed as to be readily cleaned.
(ii) Such trucks or receptacles shall be
marked in a conspicuous manner with the phrase "Pa. Condemned" in letters not
less than two inches high and, when required by the officer in charge, shall be
equipped with facilities for locking or sealing.
(6) Adequate facilities, including liquid
soap and cleansers, for cleansing and disinfecting hands, for sterilizing all
implements used in dressing diseased carcasses, floors, and such other articles
and places as may be contaminated by diseased carcasses or otherwise.
(7) -
(i) In
establishments in which slaughtering is done, rooms, compartments or specially
prepared open places, to be known as "final inspection places," at which the
final inspection of retained carcasses may be conducted.
(ii) Competent assistants for handling
retained carcasses and parts shall be provided by the establishment.
(iii) Final inspection places shall be
adequate in size and their rail arrangement and other equipment shall be
sufficient to prevent carcasses and parts passed for food or cooking from being
contaminated by contact with condemned carcasses or parts; they shall be
equipped with hot water, lavatory, sterilizer, tables and other equipment
required for ready, efficient, and sanitary conduct of the
inspection.
(iv) The floors shall
be of such construction as to facilitate the maintenance of sanitary conditions
and shall have proper drainage connections, and when the final inspection place
is part of a larger floor, it shall be separated from the rest of the floor by
a curb, railing or otherwise.
(8) -
(i)
Retention rooms, cages or other compartments, and receptacles in which
carcasses and product may be held for further inspection.
(ii) These shall be in such number and in
such locations as the needs of the inspection in the establishment may require;
they shall be equipped for secure locking or sealing and shall be held under
locks or official seals furnished by the Department. The keys of such locks
shall not leave the custody of program employes.
(iii) Every such room, compartment or
receptacle shall be marked conspicuously with the phrase "Pa. Retained" in
letters not less than two inches high.
(iv) Rooms or compartments for these purposes
shall be secure and susceptible of being kept clean, including a sanitary
disposal of the floor liquids.
(v)
Establishment employes shall not enter any retention rooms or compartments or
open any retention receptacles unless authorized by program employes.
(9) -
(i) Adequate facilities, including denaturing
materials, for the proper disposal of condemned articles.
(ii) Tanks or other rendering equipment shall
be properly equipped for sealing when required by the provisions in Subchapter
F (relating to disposal of condemned and other unedible products) or by the
officer in charge in specific cases.
(10) Docks and receiving rooms, to be
designated by the operator of the official establishment with the officer in
charge, for the receipt and inspection of all products as provided in §
1.314 (relating to receiving place
for articles to be reinspected).
(11) -
(i)
Suitable lockers in which brands bearing the official inspection legend and
other official devices (excluding labels) and official certificates shall be
kept when not in use.
(ii) All such
lockers shall be equipped for sealing or locking with locks or seals to be
supplied by the Department and the keys of such locks shall not leave the
custody of program employes.
(12) Sanitary facilities and accommodations
as prescribed by §
1.57 (relating to specific sanitary
accomodations).
This section cited in 7 Pa. Code §
1.2 (relating to application of
inspection requirements).
