California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 4 - Plant Industry › Chapter 3 - Entomology and Plant Quarantine › Subchapter 1 - Apiaries › Article 2 - Construction and Operation of Licensed Wax-Salvage Plants › Section 2978 - Operation of Licensed Wax-Salvage Plants

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
All licensed wax-salvage plants in California shall be
						operated in accordance with the following:
(a) A record shall be kept at the plant
					 itemizing all diseased hives, appliances and comb received for treatment and
					 showing the name and address of the owner of such diseased material. Such
					 records shall be made available to the inspector upon request.
(b) Contaminated material received at a plant
					 shall at no time be exposed to robbing by bees.
(c) All diseased hives, appliances and comb
					 awaiting treatment at the plant shall be stored within the enclosure.
(d) All salvage operations shall be performed
					 within the enclosure, except as provided in Subsection (j).
(e) Doors into the vestibule shall remain
					 closed except during entry or exit.
(f) No bees shall be permitted to escape from
					 the enclosure or vestibule.
(g) All
					 comb and the contents of all frames shall be held not less than 30 minutes in
					 boiling water in a vat.
(h) Honey
					 shall not be salvaged.
(i) The
					 frames, after removal of their contents, shall be boiled not less than 20
					 minutes in a solution of lye water in a vat.
(j) The hive bodies, supers, covers and
					 bottom boards shall be boiled not less than 20 minutes in a solution of lye
					 water in a vat or shall be disinfected by scorching. Such articles may be
					 removed from the enclosure for immediate scorching at the premises provided
					 they are free of bees, honey and adhering comb.
(k) Hives and appliances having surfaces
					 which cannot be disinfected by scorching shall be boiled not less than 20
					 minutes in a solution of lye water in a vat.
(l) The lye water solution shall be prepared
					 using not less than one pound of lye to each 10 gallons of water. Before
					 treated articles are removed from the lye water solution, all scum and other
					 floating waste shall be skimmed or otherwise removed from the surface of the
					 solution. After removal of treated articles, the vat shall be drained and new
					 solution prepared or sufficient lye shall be added to restore the solution to
					 its original strength.
(m) Hives,
					 appliances and wax, which have undergone treatment as herein prescribed, may be
					 removed from the enclosure providing such treated articles are immediately
					 placed on clean pallets to prevent contact with the floor and are otherwise
					 handled within the enclosure in a manner to prevent contact with any
					 contaminated object or material.
(n) All solid refuse, including press cake,
					 awaiting disposal, treatment or processing shall be kept within the
					 enclosure.
(o) Solid refuse which
					 has been boiled 20 minutes in the lye water solution or press cake may be
					 removed from the enclosure and buried at a site which has been approved by the
					 Agricultural Commissioner of the county in which the plant is
					 located.
(p) All solid refuse which
					 has not been boiled 20 minutes in the lye water solution shall be burned to ash
					 in an incinerator at the premises, except that dry press cake may be delivered
					 to a solvent extraction plant for further processing.
(q) If the incinerator is detached from the
					 enclosure, no contaminated material or material from within the enclosure shall
					 be placed in the incinerator except during the actual process of burning, and
					 no unburned combustible material shall be left in the incinerator.
(r) Floors shall be cleaned at the end of
					 each day's operation.
(s) Settling
					 tanks located outside the enclosure shall at no time be open when bees are
					 flying.
(t) The contents of a
					 cesspool containing waste from an enclosure may be emptied only with the
					 approval of the Agricultural Commissioner of the county in which the plant is
					 located, under such safeguards as the Commissioner may prescribe to prevent
					 exposure of contaminated waste to bees at any time during the removal,
					 transportation and ultimate disposal of such waste.
1.
						Editorial correction of NOTE filed 10-21-82 (Register 82, No. 43).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  407,
						  29032,
						  29192
						  and
						  29193,
						  Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
						  29192
						  and
						  29193,
						  Food and Agricultural Code.