US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  37
                             FOOD, DRUGS, AND OIL
                                  CHAPTER 7
                        PASTEURIZATION OF MARKET MILK
                           AND MARKET MILK PRODUCTS
    37-707.  STANDARDS FOR EQUIPMENT AND SANITATION. From and after the
effective date of this act all milk pasteurizing plants in the state of Idaho
shall comply with the following standards for equipment and sanitation:
    (a)  The floors of all rooms in which milk or milk products are handled or
stored or in which milk utensils are washed shall be constructed of concrete
or other equally impervious and easily cleaned material and shall be smooth,
properly drained, provided with trapped drains, and kept clean.
    (b)  Walls and ceilings of rooms in which milk or milk products are
handled or stored or in which milk utensils are washed shall be painted and
shall have a smooth, washable, light-colored surface and shall be kept clean.
    (c)  Unless other effective means are provided to prevent the access of
flies, all openings into the outer air shall be effectively screened and doors
shall be self-closing.
    (d)  All rooms shall be well lighted and ventilated.
    (e)  Milk-plant operations shall be so located and conducted as to prevent
any contamination of the milk or the cleaned equipment. There shall be
separate rooms for (a) the pasteurizing, processing, cooling, and bottling
operations, and (b) the washing and bactericidal treatment of containers. Cans
of raw milk shall not be unloaded directly into the pasteurizing room.
Pasteurized milk or milk products shall not be permitted to come in contact
with equipment with which unpasteurized milk or milk products have been in
contact, unless such equipment has first been thoroughly cleaned and subjected
to bactericidal treatment. Rooms in which milk, milk products, cleaned
utensils, or containers are handled or stored shall not open directly into any
stable or living quarters. The pasteurization plant shall be used for no other
purpose than the processing of milk and milk products and the operations
incident thereto, except as may be approved by the department of agriculture.
    (f)  Every milk pasteurization plant shall be provided with toilet
facilities conforming with recommendations of the department of agriculture.
Toilet rooms shall not open directly into any room in which milk, milk
products, equipment, or containers are handled or stored. The doors of all
toilet rooms shall be self-closing. Toilet rooms shall be kept in a clean
condition, in good repair, and well ventilated. In case privies or earth
closets are permitted and used, they shall be separate from the building, and
shall be of a sanitary type constructed and operated and maintained so that
the waste is inaccessible to flies and does not pollute the surface soil or
contaminate any water supply.
    (g)  The water supply shall be easily accessible, adequate, and of a safe,
sanitary quality.
    (h)  Convenient handwashing facilities shall be provided, including warm
running water, soap, and approved sanitary towels. The use of a common towel
is prohibited.
    (i)  All piping used to conduct milk or milk products shall be "sanitary
milk piping" of a type which can be easily cleaned with a brush. Pasteurized
milk and milk products shall be conducted from one (1) piece of equipment to
another only through sanitary milk piping.
    (j)  All multi-use containers and equipment with which milk or milk
products come in contact shall be constructed in such manner as to be easily
cleaned and shall be kept in good repair. The manufacture, packing,
transportation, and handling of single-service containers and container caps
and covers shall be conducted in a sanitary manner.
    (k)  All wastes shall be properly disposed of.
    (l)  All milk and milk products containers and equipment, except
single-service containers, shall be thoroughly cleaned after each usage. All
containers shall be subjected to an approved bactericidal process after each
cleaning and all equipment immediately before each usage. When empty and
before being returned to a producer by a milk plant each container shall be
effectively cleaned and subjected to bactericidal treatment.
    (m)  After bactericidal treatment all bottles, cans, and other multi-use
milk or milk-products containers and equipment shall be stored in such manner
as to be protected from contamination.
    (n)  Between bactericidal treatment and usage, and during usage,
containers and equipment shall not be handled or operated in such manner as to
permit contamination of the milk.
    (o)  Milk-bottle caps or cap stock, parchment paper for milk cans, and
single-service containers shall be purchased and stored only in sanitary tubes
and cartons, respectively, and shall be kept therein in a clean dry place.
    (p)  All milk and milk products received for pasteurization shall
immediately be cooled in approved equipment to 50º F., or less and maintained
at that temperature until pasteurized, and all pasteurized milk and milk
products shall be immediately cooled in approved equipment to an average
temperature of 50º F., or less. Average cooling temperature shall be taken to
mean the arithmetic average, of the respective temperature of the last four
(4) consecutive samples, taken upon separate days.
    (q)  Packaging and capping or sealing of milk and milk products shall be
done at the place of pasteurization in approved mechanical equipment only.
Hand capping is prohibited.
    (r)  Overflow of milk or milk products shall not be sold for human
consumption.
    (s)  The director of the department of agriculture or physicians
authorized by him shall examine and take a careful morbidity history of every
person employed in a pasteurization plant, or about to be employed, whose work
brings him in contact with the production, handling, storage, or
transportation of milk, milk products, containers, or equipment. If such
examination or history indicates that such person may be a carrier of or
infected with the organisms of typhoid or paratyphoid fever or any other
communicable diseases likely to be transmitted through milk, he shall secure
appropriate specimens of body discharges and cause them to be examined in a
laboratory approved by him or by the state board of health and welfare for
such examination and if the results indicate that such person is or may be a
carrier of such disease, such person shall be barred from such employment.
    (t)  All persons coming in contact with milk, milk products, containers,
or equipment shall wear clean outer garments and shall keep their hands clean
at all times while thus engaged.
    (u)  All vehicles used for the transportation of milk or milk products
shall be so constructed and operated as to protect their contents from the sun
and from contamination. All vehicles used for the transportation of milk or
milk products in their final delivery containers shall be constructed with
permanent tops and with permanent or rolldown sides and back, provided that
openings of the size necessary to pass the delivery man may be permitted in
the sides or back for loading and unloading purposes. All vehicles shall be
kept clean, and no substance capable of contaminating milk or milk products
shall be transported with milk or milk products in such manner as to permit
contamination. All vehicles used for the distribution of milk or milk products
shall have the name of the distributor prominently displayed. The immediate
surroundings of the milk plant shall be kept in a neat, clean condition.