Minnesota Administrative Rules

1545.1000 ROOMS FOR SEPARATE OPERATIONS.

The plant shall have separate rooms for each of the following operations depending upon the various types of operations conducted but in no case shall the receiving or feeding of live poultry, rabbits, or animals or killing operations be permitted in rooms in which eviscerating operations are performed:

A.

The receiving and feeding of live poultry, rabbits, or animals.

B.

Killing, scalding, and roughing operations.

C.

Pinning, finishing, and chilling and packing operations for dressed poultry, rabbits, or animals.

D.

Evisceration operations. Final pinning of dressed poultry and chilling and packaging of edible products may be performed in this room; openings in walls for conveyor lines are permissible.

E.

Inedible products departments.

F.

Refuse rooms. Separate refuse rooms or other equally adequate facilities shall be required in eviscerating plants and in other plants where accumulations of refuse occur.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 31.54

Published Electronically:

August 28, 2002