The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-08-06

Item, 16: UTENSILS - HAND
LING: After diSinfection no con-
tainer or other milk or milk products
utenSil shall be handled in such
manner as to permit any part of the
person or clothing to come in con-
tact with the surface with which
milk or milk products come in con-
tact.
Item, II: MILKING, UDDERS g.
TEATS: The udders and teatS Of
all milking COWS shall be clean at the
time of milking.
Item 18: MILKING, FLANKS:
The flanks, bellies and tails Of all
milking cows shall be free from all
visible dirt at the time of milking.
Item 10: MIXERS HANDS:
Mixers hands shall be clean, rinsed
with diSinfectant, and dried with a
clean towel Immediately before milk
ing. Should the milking operation
he interrupted, the mixers hands
must be rediSinfected. Wet hand
milking is prohibited. Convenient ia
cilities shall be provided for the
washing of mixers hands.
Item 20: CLEAN CLOTHING:
Mixers and milk handlers shall
wear clean outer clothing while
working.
Item 81: MILK STOOLS: Milk
stools shall be kept clean.
Item %: REMOVAL OF MILK:
Each pail of milk shall be removed
Immediately to the milk house or
straining room. No milk shall be
strained or poured in the dairy barn.
Item %: COOLING MILK: Milk
must be cooled Immediately after
milking to so degrees F., or less, and
maintained at or below that tenn
perature until delivery, unless it is
delivered to a milk plant for pas
teurization or separation, in which
case it must be cooled or paSteuriz-
ed within two hours of the time of
production.
Item "a: BOTTTING OR CAP
PING: Bottling and Gaping shall
be done by machine. Caps shall be
purchased in sanitary tubes and
kept therein in clean place until
used.
Item 25: PERSONNEL-FIEALTH
CERTIFICATES: Every person con-
nected with a dairy or milk plant,
whose work brings him or her in
contact with the production hand
ling, storage or transportation Of
milk or milk products, shall have,
within twelve months, passed med
ical examination made by the health
officer or by a licensed physician ap-
proved by the health officer, and
shall submit such specimens of bod
lily discharge as the health officer
shall require.
Item IS: NOTIFICATION OF d.
SEASE: Notice shall be sent to the
health officer Immediately by any
milk producer or distributor upon
whose dairy farm or in whose milk
plant any case of sickness or any
infectious, contagious or commune
able disease occurs. -
GRADE tB" RAW MILK: Grade
HB" raw milk IS milk the average
bacterial count of which at no time
prior to delivery exceeds 5000 per
cubic centimeter and which is pro-
duced upon dairy farms conforming
with all the items of sanitation re-
quired for grade ga" raw milk ex-
cept (IB), az or co. provided that
cleanliness Of the barn and COW
yard shall be in no case be omitted.
Item (23) shall apply except that
the cooling temperature shall be
changed TO seventy COY degrees
Fahrenheit.
GRADE "C'' RAW MILK: Grade
&C" Raw Milk is milk the average
bacterial count of which at no time
prior to delivery exceeds 100000 per
cubic mentimeter and which is pro-
duced on dairy farms conforming
with all the items of sanitation re-
quired for Grade 'sB" Raw Milk, ex-
cept Cl2), (23), (24) or (25), pro-
vided that cleanliness shall be in no
case omitted. ---.rr 49,.
GRADE ID" RAW MILK: Grade
sd" Raw Milk is raw milk which
does not meet the requirements OF
Grade &c" raw milk.
The standard methods of milk
analysis of the American Public
Health Association are hereby
adopted and made part of this or
dinance. Ill.,. .s...s ...,.- ..
PASTEURIZED MILK
GRADE "a" PASTEURIzED
milk is Grade "a" or Grade 'B" Raw
Milk which has been pasteurized,
cooled, and bottled in a milk plant
conforming with all of the following
items of sanitation and the average
bacterial count of which at no time
after pasteurization and until de-
livery exceeds 5000 per cubic cent?
meter. ....- ..- .-' .
Item /: FLOORS: The floors of all
rooms in which milk is handled shall
be constructed of concrete or other
equally impervious and easily clean
ed material and shall be smooth,
properly drained and provided with
trapped drains, and kept clean.
Item 2: WALLS AND CEILINGS:
Walls and ceilings of rooms in which
milks is handled or stored shall have
a washable, light colored surface and
he kept clean.
Itar, Q. nO0RS AMID WINDOWS.