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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 130930 ORDINANCE NO. 1309 AN ORDINANCE relating to and regulating the sale of milk and milk products; providing for grading and for the inspection of the production and processing thereof; requiring permits; defining offenses and prescribing penalties; and repealing all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith. SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS The following definitions skull apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this ordinance: A. MILK. Milk is hereby defined to be the lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, excluding that obtained within 15 days before and 5 days after calving, or such longer period as may be necess- ary to render the milk practically colostrum free; which contains not less than 82 per cent of milk solids not fat, and not less than 32 per cent of milk fat. B. MILK FAT OR BUTTER FAT. Milk fat or butter fat is the fat of milk. C. CREAM AND SOUR CREAM. Cream is the portion of milk which contains not less than 20 per cent milk fat. Sour cream is cream the acidity of which is more than 0.20 per cent, expressed as lactic acid. D. DEFATTED MILK. Defatted milk is milk from which a sufficient portion of milk fat has been removed to reduce its milk -fat percentage to less than 32 per cent. E. MILK OR DEFATTED MILK BEVERAGE. A milk beverage or a defatted milk beverage is a food compound or confection consisting of milkor defatted milk, as the case may be, to which has been added a syrup or flavor consisting of wholesome ingredients. F. BUTTERMILK. Buttermilk is a product resulting from the churnig of milk or cream, or from the souring or treatment by a lactic acid or other culture of milk, defatted milk, reconstituted defatted milk, evaporated or condensed milk or defatted milk,or milk or defatted milk powder. It contains not less than 8 percent of milk solids not fat. G. VITAMIN D MILK. Vitamin D. Milk is milk the vitamin D content of which has been increased by a method and in an amount approved by the health officer. H. RECONSTITUTED OR RECOMBINED MILK AND CREAM. Reconstituted or recombined milk is a product resulting from the recombining of milk constituents with water, and which complies with the standards for milk fat and solids not fat or milk as defined herein. Reconstituted or recombined cream is a product resulting from the combination of dried cream, butter, or butter fat with cream, mill, defatted milk or water. I. GOAT MILK. Goat milk is the lacteal secretion, free from colostrum, obtained by the complete,milking of healthy goats, and shall comply with all the requirements of this ordinance. The word "cows" shall be interpreted to include "goats". J. HOMOGENIZED MILK. Homogenized milk is milk which has been treated in such a manner as to insure break-up of the fat globules to such an extent that after 48 hours' storage no visible cream separat icon occurs on this milk and the fat percentage of the top 100cc. of milk in a quart bottle, or of proportionate volumes in containers of other sizes, does not differ by more than 10 percent of itself from the fat percentage of the remaining milk as determined after thorough mixing. K. MILK PRODUCTS. Milk products shall be taken to mean and include cream, sour cream, homogenized milk, goat milk, Vitamin D milk, buttermilk, defatted milk, reconstituted or recombined milk and cream, milk beverages, defatted milk beverages, and any other product made by the addition of any substance to milk or any of these products and used for similar purposes and designated as milk products by the health officer. L. PASTEURIZATION. The terms "pas teurization'l.,'pasteurized", and similar terms, shall be taken to refer to the process of heating every particle of milko or milk products to at least 143°F., and holding at such temperature for at least 30 minutes, or to at least 1600 F., and holding at such temperature for at least 15 seconds in approved and properly operated equipment under the pro- visions of this ordinance: Provided, that nothing contained in this defini- tion shall be construed as disbarring any other process which has been demon- strated to be equally efficient and which is approved by the State Board of Health. M. ADULTERATED MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS. Any.milk or milk product which contains any unwholesome substance, or which if defined in this ordinance does not conform with its definition, or which carries a grade label unless such grade has been awarded by the health officer and not revoked, shall be deemed adulterated and misbranded. N. MILK PRODUCER. A milk producer is any person who owns or controls one or more cows a part of all of the milk or milk products from which is sold or offered for sale. 0. MILK DISTRIBUTOR. A milk distributor is any pweson who offers for sale or sells to another any milk or milk products for human consumption as such. P. DAIRY OR DAIRY FARM. A dairy or dairy farm is any place or premises where one or more cows are kept, a part or all of the milk or milk products from which is sold or offered for sale. Q. MILK PLANT. A milk plant is any place or premises or establishment where milk or milk products are collected, handled, processed, stored, bottled, pasteurized or prepared for distribution. R. HEALTH OFFICER. The term "health officer" shall mean the county health officer as defined in Section 6091 of Remington's Revised Statutes of Washington, or his authorized representatives. S. AVERAGE BACTERIAL PLATE COUNT, DIRECT MICROSCOPIC COUNT, REDUTION TIME, AND CODLING TEMPERATURE. Average bacterial plate count and average direct micro- scopic count shall be taken to mean the logarithmic average, and average reduction time and average cooling temperature shall be taken to mean the arithmetic average of the respective results of the last four consecutive samples, taken upon separate days, irrespective of the date of grading or regrading. T. GRADING PERIOD. The grading period shall be such period of time as the health officer may designate within which grades shall be determined for all milk and milk products, provided that the grading period shall in no case exceed six months. U. PERSON. The word "person"as used in this ordinance shall mean "person, firm, corporation or association." V. AND/OR. Where the term "and/or" is used "and" shall apply where possible, otherwise "or" shall spply. SECTION 2. SALE OF ADULTERATVD, MISBRANDED, PARTIALLY HOMOGENIZED OR UNGRADED MILK OR MILK PRODUCTS PROHIBITED. No person shall *ithin the City of Renton, or its police jurisdiction, produce, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, any milk or milk product which is adulterated, misbranded, partially homo- genized or ungraded. It shall be unlawful for any person elsewhere than in a private home, to have in possession any adulterated, misbranded or ungraded milk or milk product. SECTION 3. PERMITS It shall be unlawful for any person to bring into or receive into the City of Renton, or its police jurisdiction, for sale, or to sell or offer for sale therein, or to have in storage where milk or milk products are sold or served, any milk or milk product defined in this ordinance, who does not possess an unrevoked permit from the health officer of King County. Only a person who comlies with the requirements of this ordinance shall be entitled to receive and retain such a permit. Such a permit may be suspendedaby the health officer, or revoked after an opportunity for a hearing by the health officer, upon the violation by the holder of any of the terms of this ordinance. -2- SECTION 4. LABELING AND PLACARDING All bottler, cans, packages, and other containers enclosing milk or any milk product defined in this ordinance shall be plainly labeled or marked with (1) the name of the contents as given in the definitions in this ordinance; (2) the grade of the contents; (3) the word".pasteurized" only if the contents have been pasteurized; (4) the word 'craw" only if the contents are raw; (5) the phrase "for pasteurization" if the contents are to be pasteurized; (6) the name of the producer if the contents are raw, and the name of the plant at which the contents were pasteurized, if the contents are pasteurized; and (7) in the case of - Vitamin D milk, the designation "Vitamin D Milk" and the source of the Vitamin D. The label or mark shall be in letters of.a size, kind, and color approved by the health officer and shall contain no marks or words which are misleading. Every restaurant, cafe, soda fountain, or other establishment serving milk or milk products shall display at all times, in a place designated by the health,. officer, a notice of the form and style approved by the health officer, stating the lowest grade of milk and/or milk products served. SECTION 5. INSPECTION OF DAIRY FARMS AND MILK PLANTS FOR THE PURPOSE "OF GRADING OR REGRADING At least once during each grading period the health officer shall inspect all dairy farms and all milk plants whose milk or milk products are intended for consumption within the City of Renton, or its police jurisdiction. In case the health officer discovers the violation of any item -of sanitation, he shall make a second inspection after a lapse.of such time as he deems necessary for the defect to be remedied, but not before the lapse of three days; and the second inspection shall be used in determining the grade of milk and/or milk products. Any violation of the same item of this ordinance on two consecutive inspections shall call for immediate degrading. One copy of the inspection report shall be posted by the health officer in a conspicuous place upon an inside wall of -one of the dairy farm or milk plant buildings, and said inspection report shall be filed with the records of the health department. SECTION 6. THE EXAMINATION OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS During eadh grading period at least four samples of milk and cream from each dairy farm and each milk plant shall be taken on separate days and examined by the health officer. Samples of other milk products may be taken and examined by the health officer as often as he deems necessary. Samples of milk and milk products from stores, cafes, soda fountains, restaurants, and other places where milk or milk products are sold shall be examined as often as the health officer may require. Bacterial plate counts and direct microscopic counts shall be made in conformity with the latest standard methods recommended by the American Public health Association. Examinations may include such other chemical and physical determinations as the health officer may deem necessary for the detection of adulteration, these examinations to be made in accordance with the latest standard methods of the American Public Health Association and the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. Samples ma- be taken by the health officer at any time prior to the final delivery of the milk or milk products. All proprietors of stores, cafes, restaurants, soda fountains, and other similar places shall furnish the health officer, upon his request, with the names of all, distributors from whom their milk and milk products are obtained. B io-assays of the Vitamin D content of Vitamin D. milk shall be made when required by the.health officer in a laboratory approved by him for,such examination. Whenever the average bacterial count, the average reduction time, or the average cooling temperature falls beyond the limit for the grade then held, the health officer shall send written notice thereof to the person concerned, and shall take an additional sample, but not before the lapse of three days, for determining a new average in accordance with Section 1 (S). Violation of the grade requirement by the new average or by any subsequent average during the remainder of the current grading period shall call for immediate degrading or suspension of the permit, unless the last individual result is.within the grade limit. SECTION 7. THE GRADING OF 14ILK AND MILK PRODUCTS At least once every six months the health officer shall announce the grades of all milk and milk products delivered by all producers or distributors and -3- ultimately consumed within the City cif Renton, or its police jurisdiction. Said grades shall be based upon the foll8wing standards, the grading of milk products being identical with the grading of milk except that the bacterial standards shall be doubled in the case of cream, and omitted in the case of sour cream and buttermilk. Vitamin D. milk shall be only of grade A or grade B pasteurized, certified, or grade A raw quality. CERTIFIED MILK -RAW Certified milk -raw is raw milk which conforms with the requirements of the American Association of Medical Milk Commissions in force at the time of produc- tion and is produced under the supervision of a medical milk commission and of the State Board of Health or of the health officer, as shown in the publication "Methods and Standards of Certified Milk," on file in the office of the Health Officer. GRADE A RAW MILK Grade A raw milk is raw milk the average bacterial plate count of which as determined under Section 1 (S) and 6 of this ordinance does not exceed 20,000 per cubic centimeter, or the average direct microscopic count which does not exceed 20,000 per cubic centimeter if clumps are counted or 50,000 per cubic centimeter if individual organisms are counted, or the average reduction time of which is not less than eight hours: Provided, that if the milk is to be past- eurized, the corresponding limits shall be 100,000 per cubic centimeter, and 6 hours, 1000,000 per cubic centimeter, 400,000 per cubic centimeter, and 6 hours, respectively; and which is produced upon dairy farms conforming with all of the following items of sanitation. ITEM lr. COWS, TUBEr`tCULOSIS AND OTHER DISEASES. Except as provided herein- after, a tuberculin test of all herds and additions thereto shall be made before any milk therefrom is sold, and at least once every 12 months thereafter, by a licensed veterinarian approved by the Washington State Department of Agriculture. Said tests shall be made and the reactors disposed of in accordance with the requirements approved by the health officer for accredited herds. A certificate signed by the veterinarian or attested to by the health officer and filed with the health officer shall be evidence of the above tests: Provided, that in modified tuberculosis -free accredited counties in which the modified tuberculosis - free accredited area plan is applied to the dairy herds, the modified tuberculosis - free accredited area system approved by the health officer shall be accepted in lieu of annual testing. Within one year after the adoption of this ordinance all milk and milk products consumed raw shall be from herds or additions thereto which have been found free from Bang's disease, as shown by blood serum tests for agglutinins against Brucella abortus made in a laboratory approved by the health officer. Said tests shall be made and reactors disposed of in accordance with the require- ments approved by the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry, for Bangs disease-free accredited areas. All such herds shall be retested at least evert 12 months and all reactors disposed of in accordance with the above requirements: Provided, that cattle which have been vaccinated with an approved vaccine as calves between the ages of 4 and 8 months and which react to the above test but are not producing milk may be retained in the herd until they are 16 months of age, at which time they shall be tested and if they react, shall be disposed of as required above, A certificate identifying each animal by number, and signed by the laboratory making the test, shall be evidence of the above tests: Provided, that in modified Bang's disease-free accredited counties in which the modified accredited area plan is applied to the dairy herds, the modified Bang's disease free accredited area system approved by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry shall be accepted in lieu of annual teating of non-infected herds of cattle. Cows which show an extensive or entire induration of one or more quarters of the udder upon physical examination, whether secreting abnormal milk or not, shall be permanently excluded from the milking herd. Cows giving bloody, stringy, or otherwise abnormal milk, but with only slight induration of the udder, shall be excluded from the herd until reexamination shows that the milk has become normal. For other diseases such tests and examinations as the health officer may require shall be made at intervals and by methods prescribed by him, and any diseased animals or reactors shall be disposed of as he may require. -4- ITEM 2r. DAIRY BARN, LIGHTING. A dairy or milking barn shall be required and in such sections thereof where cows are milked, windows shall be provided and kept clean and so arranged as to insure adequate light properly distributed, and when necessary, shall be provided with adequate supplementary artificial light. ITEM 3r. DAIRY BARN, AIR SPACE, AND VENTILATION. Such sections of all dairy barns where -cows are kept or milked shall be well ventilated and shall be so arranged as to avoid overcrowding. .- ITEM 4r.. DAIRY BARN,,FLOORS. The floors and gutters of such parts of all dairy barns in which cows are milked shall be constructed of concrete or other approved impervious and easily cleaned material and shall be kept clear and in good repair; Provided, that if the milk is to be pasteurized tight wood may be used, and shall be graded to drain properly. No horses, pigs, fowl, calves, etc., shall be permitted in parts of the barn used for milking. ITEM 5r. DAIRY BARN, WALLS AND CEILINGS. The walls and ceilings of all dairy barns shall be whitewashed once each year or painted once every two years, or oftener, if necessary, or finished in an approved manner; and shall be kept clean and in good repair. In case there is a second story above that part of the barn in which cows are milked, the ceiling shall be tight. If the feed room adjoins the milking space,.it shall be separated therefrom by a dust -tight partition and door. No feed shall be stored in the milking portion of the barn. ITEM 6r. DAIRY BARN, COWYARD. All cowyards shall be graded -and drained as well as practicable and kept clean. ITEM 7r. MANURE DISPOSAL. All manure shall be removed and stored of or disposed of in such manner as best to prevent the breeding of flies therein or the access of cows to piles thereof. ITEM 8r. MILK HOUSE OR ROOM, CONSTRUCTION. There shall be provided a milk house or milk room in which the cooling, handling, and storing of milk and milk products and the washing, bactericidal treatment, and storing of milk con- tainers and utensils shall be done. (a) The milk house or room shall be pro- vided with a tight floor constructed of concrete or other impervious material, in good repair, and graded to provide proper drainage. (b) It shall have walls and ceilings of such construction as to permit easy cleaning, and shall be lighted and ventilated. (d) It shall have all openings effectively screened, including outward-openints, self -closing doors, unless other effective means are provided to prevent the entrance of flies. (e) It shall be used for no other purposes than those specified above, except as may be approved by the health officer; shall not open directly into a stable or into any room used for domestic purposes, shall have water piped into it; shall be provided with adequate facilities for the heating of water for the cleaning of utensils; shall be equipped with two compartment stationary wash and rinse vats, except that in the case of retail raw milk, if chlorine is employed as the principal bacteri- cidal treatment, the three -compartment type must be used; and shall, unless the milk is to be pasteurized, be partitioned to separate the handling of milk and the storage of cleansed utensils from the cleaning and other operations, which shall be so located and conducted as to prevent any contamination of the milk or of cleaned equipment. ITEM 9r. TALK HOUSE OR ROOM, CLEANLINESS AND FLIES. The floors, wails, ceilings and equipment of the milk house or room shall be dept clean -at all times. All means necessary for the elimination of flies shall be used. ITEM 10r. TOILET. Every dairy farm shall be provided with one or more san- itary toilets conveniently located and properly constructed,. operated, and main- ts.ined so that the waste is inaccessible to flies and does not pollute the surface soil or contaminate any water supply. ITEM llr. WATER SUPPLY. The water supply for the milk room.and dairy barn shall be properly located, constructed, and operated, and shall be easily accessible, adequate, and of a safe sanitary quality. ITEM 12r. UTENSILS, CONSTRUCTION. All multi -use containers or other utensils used in the handling, storage, or transportation of milk or milk products must be made of smooth nonabsorbent material and of such construction as easily to be cleaned, and must be in good repair. Joints and seams shall be soldered flush. Woven wire cloth shall not be used for straining milk. All milk pails shall be of a small -mouth design approved by the health offecer. The manufacture, packing transportation, and handling of single -service containers and container caps and covers shall be conducted in a sanitary manner. -5- ITEM 13r. UTENSILS, CLEANING. All multi -use containers, equipment, and other utensils used in the handling, storage, or transportation of milk and milk products must be thoroughly cleaned after each usage, ITEM l4r. UTENSILS, BACTERICIDAL TREATMENT. All multi -use containers, equipment, and other utensils used in the handling, storage or transportation of milk or milk products shall between usage be subjected to an approved bacter- icidal process with steam, hot water, chlorine, or hot air. ITEM 15r. UTENSILS, STORAGE. All containers and other utensils used in the handling, storage, or transportation of milk or milk products shall be stored so as not to become contaminated before being used. ITEM 16r. UTENSILS, HANDLING. After bactericidal -treatment no containers or other milk or milk product utensil shall be handled in such a manner as to permit any part of any person or his clothing to come in contact with any surface with which milk or milk products come in contact. ITEM 17r. MILKING, UDDERS AND TEATS, ABNORMAL MILK. The udders and teats of all milking cows shall be clean and rinsed with a bactericidal solution at the time of milking. Abnormal milk shall be kept out of the milk supply and shall be so handled and disposed of as to preclude the infection of the cows and the contamination of milk utensils. ITEM 18r. MILKING, FLANKS. The flanks, bellies and tails of all milking cows shall be free from visible dirt at the time of milking. ITEM 19r. MILKERS' HANDS. Milkers' hands shall be cleaned, rinsed with a bactericidal solution, and dried with a clean towel immediately before milking and following any interruption in'.the milking operation. Wet -hand milking is prohibited. Convenient facilities shall be provided for the washing of milkers' hands. ITEM 20r. CLEAN CLOTHING. Milkers and milk handlers shall wear clean outer garments while milking or handling milk, milk products, containers, utensils, or equipment. ITEM. 21r. MILK STOOLS. Milk stools shall be kept clean. ITEM. 22r. REMOVAL OF MILK. Each pail of milk .shall be removed immediately to the milk house or straining room. No milk shall be strained in the dairy barn. ITEM 23ro COOLING. Milk must be cooled immediat6ly after completion of milking to 50 F. or less, and maintained at that average temperature, as defined in Section 1 (S), until delivery. If milk is delivered to a milk plant or receiving station for pasteurization or separation, it must be cooled to 60° F. or less and maintained at that temperature until delivered. ITEM 24r. BOTTLING AND CAPPING. Milk and milk products shall be bottled from a container with a readily cleanable valve, or by means of an approved bottling machine. Bottles shall be capped by machine. Caps or cap stock shall be purchased in sanitary containers and kept therein in a clean dry place until used. ITEM 25r. PERSONNEL, HEALTH. The health officer or a physician authorized by him shall examine and take a careful morbidity history of every person connected with a retail raw dairy, 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 suggests that such 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 approprite specimens of body discharges and cause them to be examined in a laboratory approved by him or by the State Board of Health for such examinations, and if the results justify, such person shall be barred from such employment. Such persons shall furnish such information, submit to such physical exam- inations, and submit such laboratory specimens as the health officer may require for the purpose of determining freedom from infection. ITEM 26r.' MISCELLANEOUS. All vehicles used for the transportation of milk or milk products shall be so constructed and operated as to protect their con- tents from the sun and from contamination. All final delivery containers shall be constructed with permanent tops and with permanent or roll -down sides and back, providing 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 10 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. Deck boards must be used where more than one deck of cans is transported. The immediate surroundings of the dairy shall be kept in a neat,clean condition. GRADE B RAW MILK Grade B raw milk is raw milk which violates the baterial standard and/or the abortion testing requirement for grade A raw milk, but which conforms with all other requirements for grade A raw milk, and has an average bacterial plate count not exceeding 100,000 per cubic centimeter, or an average direct micro- scopic count not exceeding 100,000 per cubic centimeter if clumps are counted or 600,000 per cubic centimeter if individual organisms are counted, or an average redaction time of not less than 32 hours, as determined under Sections 1 (s) and 6. GRADE C RAW MILK Grade C raw milk is raw milk which violates any of the requirements of grade B raw milk. CERTIFIED MILK -PASTEURIZED Certified milk -pasteurized is certified milk -raw which has been pasteurized, cooled, and bottled in a milk plant conforming with the requirements for Grade A pasteurized milk and which conforms with the requirements of the American Assoc- iation of Medical Milk Commissions, as shown in the publication "Methods and Standards of Certified h1ilk" on file in the office of the Health Officer. GRADE A PASTEURIZED MILK Grade A pasteurized milk is grade A raw mill;, with such exceptions as are indicated if the milk is to be pasteurized, which has been pasteurized, cooled and bottled in a milk plant conforming with all of the following items of sani- tation and the average bacterial plate count of which at no time after pasteur- ization and until delivery exceeds 20,000 per cubic centimeter, as determined under Sections 1 (S) and 6. The grading of a pasteurized milk supply shall include the inspection of receiving and collecting stations with respect to items 1p to 15p inclusive, and 17p, 19p, 22p, and 23p, except that the partitioning requirement of item 5p shall not apply. .ITEM 1p. FLOORS. The floors of all rooms in which milk or milk prod -acts 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. ITEM 2p. WALLS AND CEILINGS. Walls and ceilings of rooms in which milk or milk products are handled or stored or in which milk utensils are washed shall have a smooth, washable, light-colored surface and shall be kept clean. ITEM 3p. DOORS AND 14INDOWS. 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. ITEM lip. LIGHTING AND VENTILATION. All rooms shall be well lighted and ventilated. ITEM 5p. MISCELLANEOUS PROTECTION FROM CONTAMINATION. The various milk - plant operations shall be so located and conducted as to prevent any contamination of the milk or of the cleaned equipment. All means necessary for the elimination of flies shall be used. There shall be separate rooms for (a) the pasteurization 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 -7- 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 purposes than the processing of milk and milk products and the opera- tions thereto, except as may be approved by the health officer. ITEM 6p. TOILET FACILITIES. Every milk plant shall be provided with toilet facilities complying with all requirements of the health officer. 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 with the requirements of item 10r, grade A raw milk. ITEM 7p. WATER SUPPLY. The water supply shall be easily accessible, adequate, and of a safe, sanitary quality. ITEM 8p. HAND -WASHING FACILITIES. Convenient hand -washing facilities shall be provided, including hot and cold running water, soap, and approved sanitary towels. The use of a common towel is prohibited. ITEM 9p. SANITARY PIPING. 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 piece of equipment to another only through sanitary milk piping. ITEM 10p. CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF CONTAINERS AND EQUIPMENT. All multi- use containers and equipment with which milk or milk products come in contact shall be contructed in such manner as easily to be 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. ITEM llp. DISPOSAL OF WASTES. All wastes shall be properly disposed of. ITEM 12p. CLEANING AND BACTERICIDAL TREATMENT OF CONTAINERS AND EQUIP- MENT. All milk and milk products' containers and equipment, except single - service containers, shall be thoroughly cleaned after each usage. All cotainers 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 &f6wely cleaned and subjected to bactericidal treatment. ITEM 13p. STORAGE OF CONTAINERS AND EQUIPMENT. After bactericidal treat- ment of bottles, cans, and other multi -use milk or milk products' containers and equipment shall be stores in such manner as to be protected from contamination. ITEM 14p. HANDLING OF CONTAINERS AND EQUIP1•11ENT. 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. ITEM 15p. STORAGE OF CAPS, PARCHMENT PAPER, AND SINGLE SERVICE CONTAINERS. Milk bottle caps or cap stock, parchment paper for milk cans, and single -ser- vice containers shall be purchased and stored only in sanitary tubes and cartons, respectively, and shall be kept therein in a clean dry place. ITEM 16p. PASTEURIZATION. Pasteurization shall be performed as described in Section 1 (L) of this ordinance. ITEM 17p. COOLING. All milk and milk products received for pasteuri- zation shall immediately be cooled in approved equipment to 500 F. or less and maintained at that temperature until -pasteurized, unless they are to be pasteuri- zed within two hours after receipt; and all pasteurized milk and milk products shall be immediately cooled in approved equipment to an average temperature of 500 F. or less as defined in Section 1 (S) and maintained thereat until delivery. ITEM 18p. BOTTLING. Bottling of milk or milk products shall be done at the place of pasteurization in approved mechanical equipment. ITEM. 19p. OVERFLOW MILK. Overflow milk or milk products shall not be sold for human consumption. ITEM 20p. CAPPING. Capping of milk or milk products shall be done by approved mechanical equipment. Hand capping is prohibited. The cap or cover shall cover the pouring lip to at least its largest diameter. 10 ITE -14 21p. PERSONNEL, HEALTH. The health officer or a physician authorized by him shall examine and take a careful morbidity history of every person con- nected with 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 suggests that such person may be a carrier of or infected with the organisms of typhoid or para -typhoid 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 for such examinations, and if the results justify, such person shall be barred from such employment. Such persons shall furnish such information, submit to such physical exam- inations, and submit such laboratory specimens as the health officer may require for the purpose of determining freedom from infection. ITEM 22p. PERSONEEL, CLEANLINESS. 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. ITEM 23p. MISCELLANEOUS. 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 roll -down sides and back, provided that openings of size necessary to pass the delivery man may be permitted in the sides or back for loading and unloading. 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. GRADE B PASTEURIZED MILK Grade B. pasteurized milk is pasteurized milk which violates the bacterial standard for grade A pasteurized milk and/or the provision of lip -cover caps of item 20p and/or the requirements that grade A raw milk be used, but which con- forms with all other requirements for grade A pasteurized milk, has been made from raw milk of not less than grade B quality, and has an average bacterial place count after pasteurization and before delivery not exceeding 25,000 per cubic centimeter, as determined under Sections 1 (S) and 6. GRADE C PASTEURIZED MILK Grade C.pasteurized milk is pasteurized milk which violates ary of the requirements for grade B pasteurized milk. SECTION 8.. GRADES OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS WICH MAY BE SOLD From and after six (6) months from the effective date of this ordinance, no milk or milk products shall be sold to the final consumer or to restaurants, soda fountains, grocery stores, or similar establishments except certified milk pasteurized, certified raw -mil, grade A milk pasteurized, or grade A milk -raw, and the health officer may revoke the permit of any milk distributor failing to qualify for one of the above grades, or in lieu thereof=may degrade his product and permit its sale during a period not exceeding thirty (30) days or in emer- gencies during such longer period as he may deem necessary. SECTION 9. SUPPLEMENTARY GRADING PRESCRIBED AND NEGRADING AUTHORIZED If,at any time between the regular announcements of the grades of milk or milk products, a lower grade shall become justified in accordande with Sections 5, 6, and 7 of this ordinance, the health officer shall immediately lower the grade of such milk products and shall enforce proper labeling and placarding thereof. Any producer or distributor of milk or milk products, the grade of which has been lowered by the health officer, and who is properly labeling his milk and milk products, may at any time make application for the regrading of his products. -9- Upon receipt of a satisfactory application, in case the lowered grade is the result of an excessive average bacterial plate count, direct microscopic count, reduction time, or cooling temperature, the health officer shall take further samples of the applicant's output, at a rate of not more than two samples per week. The health officer shall regrade the milk or milk products upward whenever the average of the last four sample results indicates the necessary quality, but not before the lapse of two weeks from the date of degrading. In case the lowered grade of the applicant's product is due to a violation of an item of the specifications prescribed in Section 7, other than average bacterial plate count, direct microscopic count, reduction time, or cooling temp- eratures, the said appliacation must be accompanied by a statement signed.by the applicant to the effect that the violated item of the specifications has been conformed with. Within one week of the receipt of such an application and state- ment the health officer shall make a reinspection of the applicant's establish- ment and thereafter as many additional reinspections as he may deem necessary to assure himself that the applicant is again complying with the higher grade requirements, and in case the findings justify, shall regrade the milk or milk products upward, but not before the lapse of two weeks from the date of degrading. SECTION 10. TRANSFERRING OR DIPPING MILK; DELIVERY CONTAINERS: HANDLING OF MC.E THAN ONE GRADE; DELIVERY OF MILK AT QUARANTINED RESIDENCES. Except as permitted in this section, no milk producer or distributor'shall transfer milk or milk products from one container to another in the street, or in any vehicle or store, or in any place except a bottling or milk room especially used for that purpose. The sale of dip milk is hereby prohibited. All pasteurized milk and milk products shall be placed in their final delivery containers in the plant in which they are pasteurized, and all raw milk and milk products sold for consumption in the raw state shall be placed in their final delivery containers at the farm at which they are produced. Milk and milk products sold in the distributor's containers in quantities less than one gallon shall be delivered in standard milk bottles in -in single -service containers. It shall be unlawful for hotels, soda fountains, restaurants, groceries, and similar establishments to sell or serve any milk or milk product except in the individual original container in which it was received from the distributor or from a bulk container equipped with an approved dispensing device; Provided, that this requirement shall not apply to cream consumed on the premises, which may be ser v ed from the original bottle or from a dispenser approved for such service. It shall be unlawful for any hotel, soda fountain, restaurant, grocery, or similar establishment to sell or serve any milk or milk product which have not been maintained, while in its possession at a temperature of 50 F. or less. No milk or milk products shall be permitted to come in contact with equip- ment with which a lower grade of milk or milk products has been in contact unless such equipment has first been thoroughly cleaned and subjected to bactericidal treatment. The pouring lips of bottles containing milk or milk products in non -leak- proof containers shall not be submerged in water for cooling. It shall be the duty of all persons to whom milk or milk products are delivered to clean thoroughly the containers in which such milk or milk products are delivered before returning such containers. Apparatus, containers, equip- ment, and utensils used in the handling, storage, processing, or transporting of milk or milk products shall not be used for any other purpose without the permission of the health officer. The delivery of milk or milk products to and the collection of milk or milk products' containers from residences in which cases of communicable disease transmittable through milk supplies exist shall be subject to the special require- ments of the health officer. SECTION 11. MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS FROM POINTS BEYOND THE LIMITS OF ROUTINE INSPECTION. Milk and milk products from points beyond the limits of routine inspection of the Health Officer may not be sold in the City of Renton, or its police juris- diction, unless produced and/or pasteurized under provisions equivalent to the requirements of this ordinance; provided, that the health officer shall satisfy himself that the health officer having jurisdiction over the production and processing is properly enforcing such provisions. -10- SECTION 12. FUTURE DAIRIES AND MILK PLANTS All dairies and milk plants from which milk and milk products are supplied to the City of Renton which are hereafter constructed, reconstructed, or extensively altered shall conform in their construction to the requirements of this ordinance for grade A dairy farms producing milk for consumption in the raw state, or for grade A pasteurization plants, respectively: Provided, that the requirement of a two -room milk house shall be waived in the case of dairies the milk from which is to be pasteurized. Properly prepared plans for all dairies and milk plants which are hereafter constructed, reconstructed, or extensively altered shall be submitted to the health officer for approval before work is begun. In the case of milk plants signed approval shall be obtained from the health officer. SECTION 13. NOTIFICATION OF DISEASE No person who is affected with any disease in a communicable form or is a carrier of such disease shall work at any dairy farm or milk plant in any capacity which brings him in contact with the production, handling, storage, or transportation of milk, milk products, containers, or equipment; and no dairy farm or milk plant shall employ in any capacity any such person or any person suspected of being affected with any disease in a communicable form or of being a carrier of such disease. Any producer or distributor of milk or milk products upon whose dairy farm or in whose milk plant any communicable disease occurs, or who suspects that any employee has contracted any disease ina communicable form or has become a carrier of such disease, shall notify the health officer immediately. A placard containing this section shall be posted in all toilet room or privies. SECTION 14. PROCEDURE WHEN INFECTION SUSPECTED When suspicion arises as to the possibility of transmission of infection from any person concerned with the handling of milk or milk products, the health officer is authorized to require any or all of the following measures: 1. The immediate exclusion of that person from milk handling. 2. The immediate exclusion of the milk supply conerned from distribution and use. 3. Adequate medical and bacteriological examination of the person, of his associates, and of his and their body discharges. SECTION 15.. ENFORCEMENT INTERPRETATION This ordinance shall be enforced by the health officer in accordance with the interpretations of similar provisions and terms contained in the 1939 edition of the United States Public Health Service Milk Ordinance and Code, and Amendment No. 1 to Public Health Bulletin No. 220 (adopted by Public Health Service Sanitation Advisory Board - July 1941) and Amendment No. 2 (adopted by Public Health Service Sanitation Advisory Board - December 3, 1942) to the ililk Ordinance and Code, a copy of which is filed in the office of the health officer. SECTION 16. PENALTY Any person failing to comply with or violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in a sum not exceeding two -hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00), or by imprisonment in the city jail for a term not exceeding ninet- (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each and every violation.of the provisions of this ordinance shall constitute a separate offense. SECTION 17. EFFECTIVE DATE This ordinance shall be in full force and effect five (5) days from and after its passage, approval, and legal publication as provided by law. SECTION 18. REPEAL Any ordinance or rules and regulations or parts of ordinances or rules and regulations are hereby repealed.. -11- SECTION 19. UNCONSTITUTIONALITY CLAUSE Should ar_y section, sub -section, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance be declared unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or these rules and regulations. SECTION 20. ENFORCEMENT OF The, enforcement of this ordinance is hereby delegated by the City of Renton to King County. Passed by the City Council this 20th day of April, 1948 /s/ WILEY CROOK City Clerk Approved by the Mayor this 20th day of April, 1948 /s/ PERRY H. MITCHELL Mayor Approved as to Form: /s/ ARTHUR L, HAUGAN City Attorney Date of Publication; April 29, 1948 STATE OF WASHINGTON) COUNTY OF KING ) SS CITY OF RENTON ) I, Wiley Crook, City Clerk, in and for the City of Renton, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 1309, the City of Renton, as it appears on file, and do further certify that the same has been published according to law. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of the City of Renton, this 20th day of June, 1949. /s/ WILEY CROOK City Clerk