7 Pa. Code Ch. 1 — Meat Hygiene

MEAT SALADS AND SPREADS § 1.501. Deviled ham, tongue and the like. (a) “Deviled Ham” is a semiplastic cured meat food product made from finely comminuted ham and containing condiments. Deviled ham may contain added ham fat but the total fat content shall not exceed 35% the finish…

§ 1.502. Potted or deviled meat food product. “Potted Meat Food Product” and “Deviled Meat Food Product” shall not contain cereal, vegetable flour, nonfat dry milk, or similar substances. The amount of water added to potted meat food product and deviled meat food product shall be…

§ 1.503. Ham spread, tongue spread and the like. “Ham Spread,” “Tongue Spread,” and similar products shall contain not less than 50% of the meat ingredient named, computed on the weight of the fresh meat. Other meat and fat may be used to give the desired spreading consistency pr…

SANITATION § 1.51. General requirements for official establishments. (a) Lighting and ventilation. There shall be abundant light of good quality and well distributed, and sufficient ventilation for all rooms and compartments to insure sanitary conditions. (b) Plumbing. There shal…

MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS § 1.511. Breaded products. The amount of batter and breading used as a coating for breaded product shall not exceed 30% of the weight of the finished breaded product.

§ 1.512. Liver meat food products. Meat food products characterized and labeled as liver products, such as liver loaf, liver cheese, liver spread, liver paste, and liver pudding shall not contain less than 30% livers of livestock computed on the fresh weight of the livers.

§ 1.52. Potable water supply. (a) The water supply shall be ample, clean and potable, with adequate facilities for its distribution in the plant and its protection against contamination and pollution. (b) Every establishment shall make known and, whenever required by the veterina…

§ 1.521. Persons required to keep records. The following persons shall keep records which will fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in his business subject to the act: (1) Any person who engages for commerce in the business of slaughtering any cattle, sheep, swi…

§ 1.522. Required records. Persons specified in § 1.521 (relating to persons required to keep records) shall maintain the following: (1) Records, such as bills of sale, invoices, bills of lading and receiving and shipping papers, giving the following information with respect to e…

§ 1.523. Location of records. Persons required to keep records shall maintain them at the place where his business is conducted except that if such person conducts his business at multiple locations, he may maintain the records at his headquarters office. When not in actual use, …

§ 1.524. Record retention period. Every record required to be maintained under this subchapter shall be retained for a period of 2 years after December 31 of the year in which the transaction to which the record relates has occurred and for such further period as the Department m…

§ 1.525. Access to and inspection of records. Every person required to maintain records shall, upon the presentation of official credentials by any duly authorized representative of the Department during ordinary business hours, permit such representative to enter his place of bu…

§ 1.526. Registration. (a) Except as otherwise provided every person who engages in business in or for commerce as a meat broker, renderer or animal food manufacturer, or engages in business in commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, or a…

§ 1.527. Information required from official establishment operators. (a) The operator of each official establishment shall furnish to program employes accurate information as to all matters needed by them for making their daily reports of the amount of products prepared or handle…

§ 1.528. Reports by consignees of allegedly adulterated or misbranded products. Whenever the consignee of any product which bears an official inspection legend refuses to accept delivery of such product on the grounds that it is adulterated or misbranded, the consignee shall noti…

§ 1.53. Use of nonpotable water. (a) Nonpotable water is permitted only in those parts of official establishments where no edible product is handled or prepared, and then only for limited purposes such as on ammonia condensers not connected with the potable water supply, in vapor…

§ 1.54. Reuse of water. (a) The veterinary supervisor may permit the reuse of water in vapor lines leading from deodorizers used in the preparation of lard and similar edible product and in equipment used for the chilling of canned product after retorting, if the reuse is for the…

§ 1.541. Requirement for official inspection legend. No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in commerce any product which is capable of use as human food unless the product and its container, if any, bear the official insp…

§ 1.542. Transportation between official establishments. (a) Any product which has been inspected and passed may be transported from one official establishment to another for further processing without each article being marked with the official inspection legend, if it is so tra…

§ 1.543. Shipment of paunches. Cattle and sheep paunches which have been made clean and from which the mucous membrane has not been removed may be transported from one official establishment to another official establishment for further processing, only under an official seal of …

§ 1.544. Products requiring special supervision. (a) Products passed for cooking, pork that has been refrigerated to destroy trichinae, and beef that is to be refrigerated to destroy cysticerci may be shipped loose from one official establishment to any other official establishme…

§ 1.545. Return of adulterated or misbranded products. (a) When it is claimed that any product which has previously been inspected, passed and marked with the inspection legend has become adulterated or misbranded after it has been transported from an official establishment, in o…

§ 1.546. Inedible articles—general. Except as provided in § 1.545 (relating to return of adulterated or misbranded products) no carcass, part of a carcass, rendered grease, tallow or other fat derived from the carcasses of livestock, or other meat food product which has not been …

§ 1.547. Inedible rendered animal fats. (a) Inedible rendered animal fats from official or other establishments in the United States having the physical characteristics of a meat product fit for human food may be transported in commerce without denaturing under the following cond…

§ 1.548. Animal food. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b)—(d) or elsewhere in this chapter, no animal food prepared in whole or in part from materials derived from the carcasses of livestock in an official establishment or elsewhere shall be transported in commerc…

§ 1.549. Denaturing procedures. (a) Carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products (other than rendered animal fats) that have been treated in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be considered denatured for the purposes of this subchapter, except as otherw…

§ 1.55. Hot water for cleaning. (a) An ample supply of water at not less than 180 F shall be furnished and used for the cleaning of inspection equipment and other equipment, floors and walls which are subject to contamination by the dressing or handling of diseased carcasses, the…

§ 1.550. Official seals. Except as provided in § 1.552 (relating to breaking seals in emergencies) official seals affixed to means of conveyance shall be affixed or broken only by program employes and no other person shall affix, detach, break, change or tamper with any such seal…

§ 1.551. Loading or unloading products en route. Unloading any product from an officially sealed railroad car, truck or other means of conveyance containing any unmarked product or loading any product or any other commodity in the means of conveyance while en route from one offic…

§ 1.552. Breaking seals in emergencies. In case of wreck or similar extraordinary emergency, the Department seals on a railroad car or other means of conveyance containing any inspected and passed product may be broken by the carrier and, if necessary, the articles may be reloade…

§ 1.553. Materials exempted from this subchapter. The provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to the following: (1) Specimens of product sent to or by the Department or divisions thereof for laboratory examination, exhibition purposes or other official use. (2) Material rel…

§ 1.554. Transactions involving dead, dying, disabled or diseased livestock. Persons engaged in the business of buying, selling, transporting in commerce, or importing any dead, dying disabled or diseased animals or parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than b…

§ 1.555. Vehicles for transporting dead, dying, disabled or diseased livestock. (a) All vehicles and other means of conveyance used by persons subject to § 1.554 (relating to transactions involving dead, dying, disabled or diseased livestock) for transporting in commerce or impor…

§ 1.556. Transportation of certain undenatured lungs or lung lobes from official establishments or in commerce. (a) Lungs or lung lobes, other than those condemned under § 1.129 (relating to inspection and disposition of lungs; hog lungs) that are prepared at any official establi…

§ 1.56. Vector control; use of poisons. (a) Every practicable precaution shall be taken to exclude flies, rats, mice and other vermin from official establishments. The use of poisons for any purpose in rooms or compartments where any unpacked product is stored or handled is forbi…

§ 1.57. Specific sanitary accommodations. Adequate sanitary facilities and accommodations shall be furnished by every official establishment. Of these, the following are specifically required: (1) — (i) Dressing rooms, toilet rooms, and urinals shall be sufficient in number, ampl…

§ 1.571. Articles subject to administrative retention. Any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat food product of livestock, or article exempted from the definition of meat food products, or any dead, dying, disabled or diseased livestock shall be subject to retention for a per…

§ 1.572. Method of retention. An authorized representative of the Department shall retain any article or livestock to be retained under this subchapter by affixing an official “Pa. Retained” tag to such article or livestock.

§ 1.573. Notification of retention. When any article or livestock is retained an authorized representative of the Department shall give oral notification to the owner of the article or livestock retained if he can be ascertained and notified and, if not, to his agent or the immed…

§ 1.574. Notice to governmental authorities. Within 48 hours after the detention of any livestock or article pursuant to this subchapter, an authorized representative of the Department shall give oral or written notification of such retention to any Federal authorities not connec…

§ 1.575. Movement of article retained. No article or livestock retained in accordance with this Subchapter shall be moved by any person from the place at which it is located when so retained until released by an authorized representative of the Department. However, any such artic…

§ 1.576. Articles subject to seizure and condemnation. (a) Any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat food product, or any dead, dying, disabled or diseased livestock that is being transported in commerce or is otherwise subject to the act, or is held for sale in this Commonwea…

§ 1.58. Construction of equipment; identification. (a) Equipment and utensils used for preparing and otherwise handling any product shall be of such materials and construction as will make them susceptible of being readily and thoroughly cleaned and such as will insure strict cle…

§ 1.59. Scabbards for knives. Scabbards and similar devices for the temporary retention of knives, steels, triers and the like by workers and others at official establishments shall be constructed of rust-resisting metal or other impervious material, shall be of a type that may b…

§ 1.60. Rooms, compartments—general. Rooms, compartments, places, equipment and utensils used for preparing, storing, or otherwise handling any product, and all other parts of the establishment, shall be kept clean and in sanitary condition. There shall be no handling or storing …

§ 1.61. Sanitary operations and procedures. (a) Operations and procedures involving the preparation, storing or handling of any product shall be strictly in accord with clean and sanitary methods. (b) Rooms and compartments in which inspections are made and those in which livesto…

§ 1.62. Employe sanitation; clothing. (a) The employes of the establishment who handle any product shall keep their hands clean and, in all cases after visiting the toilet rooms or urinals, shall wash their hands before handling any product or implements used in the preparation o…

§ 1.63. Product containers and means of conveyance. (a) When necessary to avoid contamination of product with wood splinters or similar contaminants, slack barrels and similar containers and the cargo space of trucks, railroad cars or other means of conveyance shall be lined with…

§ 1.64. Burlap wrapping for meat. Since burlap used without any other material as a wrapping for meat deposits lint on the meat and does not sufficiently protect it from outside contamination, the use of burlap as a wrapping for meat shall not be permitted unless the meat is firs…

§ 1.65. Second-hand containers; tank cars. (a) Second-hand tubs, barrels and boxes intended for use as containers of any product shall be inspected when received at the official establishment and before they are cleaned. Those showing evidence of misuse rendering them unfit to se…