Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 23 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY › Chapter 10 - RENDERING AND PET FEED MANUFACTURING › Section 23-10-004 - Sanitation and Operation

Current through June 17, 2024
All pet feed manufacturing and rendering establishments shall
				  be maintained and operated in a sanitary manner.
004.01 All walls, floors, and equipment shall
				be of a type that can be readily and easily cleaned and sanitized.
004.02 All floors, walls, ceilings,
				stairways, handrails, piping, window ledges and other open surfaces shall be
				kept free of litter, or any other accumulations and shall be routinely cleaned
				and sanitized.
004.03 All rendering
				establishments shall have sufficient live steam to properly clean, sanitize and
				disinfect all areas and equipment. An ample supply of water at not less than
				180 degrees Farhrenheit shall be furnished and used for the cleaning of floors,
				walls, handrails, stairways, equipment and the like.
004.04 All outside areas of the establishment
				premise shall be kept free from any accumulation of bones, horns, offal, rumen
				contents, weeds and any other debris that might create a nuisance, contribute
				to unsanitary conditions or attract vermin, insects or birds. All operations
				shall be in conformance with local municipal ordinances and county
				resolutions.
004.05 Persons working
				in any establishment shall maintain a reasonable personal hygiene.
004.06 All tools and equipment when used in
				handling or conveying products shall be kept clean and in a sanitary
				condition.
004.07 All interbuilding
				connecting walkways or areas between raw product areas and processing or
				finished product areas shall be kept clean and free from any residue from
				adjacent areas at all times.
004.08
				Signs in large and conspicuous letters shall be posted at all entrances,
				restricting all unauthorized persons. Unauthorized persons are all those other
				than employees and management of the establishment, their invited guests, and
				personnel of the Bureau on official business.
004.09 Hides shall not accumulated past
				normal working time in the raw product area but shall be stored in a
				compartment separate from the raw product area. All hides shall be salted or
				treated prior to storage in the hide storage are, in accordance with sound
				manufacturing practices.
004.10
				Sufficient temperature
Sufficient temperature shall be employed in cooking
				  livestock, poultry, fish or products of the same order to render such products
				  free of any infectious, contagious or otherwise transmissible disease that may
				  have been present in the raw product. A product found to be improperly cooked
				  or to have become contaminated with a pathogenic organism after cooking may be
				  required to be reprocessed or destroyed by burning, or buried at least four (4)
				  feet under the surface of the ground.
004.11 All fluids from the establishment,
				including washings from trucks, containers and equipment, shall drain into an
				acceptable sewer, cesspool or lagoon. Lagoons shall be conspicuously posted as
				containing waste products from the establishment, contaminated, and unfit for
				human use, and shall be fenced, so as to exclude livestock.
004.12 No animal suspected to have died from
				toxic substances may be used in pet feed manufacturing or rendering.
004.13 All animal product prepared for use as
				pet food shall be decharacterized with a decharacterizing agent approved by the
				bureau.
004.14 Records
Records shall be kept on all products and carcasses received
				  by establishments and shall include numbers, species, the farm or other premise
				  where the product or carcass was picked up and the date when picked up. These
				  records shall be available for examination by any authorized representative of
				  the Bureau and shall be maintained for one year.
004.15 Sampling of any product by an
				inspector may be a part of any inspection procedure and a reasonable sample may
				be taken for the purpose of disease or sanitation survey or control at no cost
				to the Department. In case sizeable samples may be required, the inspector
				shall pay or offer to pay for such samples.
004.16 Dressing rooms and toilet facilities
				shall be maintained in a sanitary condition. Such areas shall be separate from
				all product handling areas of the establishment.
004.17 Each establishment shall provide
				sufficient natural or artificial light, or both, at all places and at all times
				of the day, of good quantity and well distributed so as to be adequate for
				proper conduct of establishment operations. Sufficient ventilation shall be
				provided for all rooms and compartments so as to insure a sanitary and
				healthful condition.
004.18 The
				water supply shall be ample and potable with adequate facilities for
				distribution throughout the plant. An ample supply of hot water (not less than
				105?F.) shall be available for cleaning of equipment, floors, walls, etc. Hot
				water shall be delivered under pressure to sufficient, convenient outlets to
				accomplish a thorough cleanup.
004.19 Every practical precaution shall be
				taken to exclude insects, rodents and other vermin from the
				facilities.
004.20 The entire area
				and equipment of the establishment in which carcasses are received and
				processed shall be thoroughly cleaned after each day's operations.