[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 9CFR354.242]



[Page 405-406]

 

                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 354_VOLUNTARY INSPECTION OF RABBITS AND EDIBLE PRODUCTS THEREOF

--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 354.242  Cleaning of equipment and utensils.



    Equipment and utensils used for preparing or otherwise handling any 

product shall be kept clean and in a sanitary condition and in good 

repair.

    (a) Pens shall be cleaned regularly and the manure removed from the 

plant daily.

    (b) All equipment and utensils used in the killing and skinning 

rooms shall be thoroughly washed and cleaned after each day's operation. 

The eviscerating, chilling, and packing room and equipment and utensils 

used therein shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.



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    (c) Graders' and packers' gloves and grading bins shall be washed 

daily and used only for grading or packing, as the case may be.

    (d) All crates or pens used for transporting live rabbits to the 

plant shall be cleaned regularly.

    (e) Chilling vats or tanks, if practicable, shall be emptied after 

each use. They shall be thoroughly cleaned once daily and, after each 

cleaning operation, they shall be sanitized with such compounds or by 

such methods as may be approved or prescribed by the Administrator.

    (f) When synchronized overhead conveyors and tray conveyors are 

used, the trays shall be completely washed and sanitized after being 

automatically emptied of inedible viscera.

    (g) When a conveyor tray operation is used, each carcass shall be 

eviscerated in an individual metal tray of seamless construction, and 

such trays shall be completely washed and sanitized after each use.

    (h) Tables, shelves, bins, trays, pans, knives, and all other tools 

and equipment used in the preparation of ready-to-cook rabbits shall be 

kept clean and sanitary at all times. Cleaned equipment and utensils 

shall be drained on racks and shall not be nested.

    (i) Drums, cans, tanks, vats, and other receptacles used to hold or 

transport ready-to-cook rabbits shall be kept in a clean and sanitary 

condition.