New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS › Chapter VI - Food Control › Subchapter G - Inspection of Meat, Meat Products and Poultry (Article 5-B Agriculture and Markets Law) › Article 1 - Meat and Meat Products › Part 318 - Entry Into Official Establishments; Reinspection And Preparation Of Products › Section 318.12 - Manufacture of dog food or similar uninspected article at official establishment

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) When dog food, or similar uninspected
					 article is manufactured in an edible product department, there shall be
					 sufficient space allotted and adequate equipment provided so that the
					 manufacture of the uninspected article in no way interferes with the handling
					 or preparation of edible products. Where necessary to avoid adulteration of
					 edible products, separate equipment shall be provided for the uninspected
					 article. To assure the maintenance of sanitary conditions in the edible product
					 departments, the operations incident to the manufacture of the uninspected
					 article will be subjected to the same sanitary requirements that apply to all
					 operations in edible product departments. The manufacture of the uninspected
					 article shall be limited to those hours during which the establishment operates
					 under inspectional supervision; and there shall be no handling, other than
					 receiving at the official establishment, of any of the product ingredient of
					 the uninspected article, other than during the regular hours of inspection. The
					 materials used in the manufacture of the uninspected article shall not be used
					 so as to interfere with the inspection of edible product or the maintenance of
					 sanitary conditions in the department or render any edible product adulterated.
					 The meat, meat by-products, and meat food product ingredients of the
					 uninspected article may be admitted into any edible products department of an
					 official establishment only if they are NYSDA&M or United States inspected
					 and passed. Products within section 314.11 of this Article or parts of
					 carcasses of kinds not permitted under the regulations in this Article to be
					 prepared for human food (e.g., lungs or intestines), which are produced at any
					 official establishment, may be brought into the inedible products department of
					 any official establishment for use in uninspected articles under this section.
					 The uninspected article may be stored in, and distributed from, edible product
					 departments: provided, that adequate facilities are furnished, there is no
					 interference with the maintenance of sanitary conditions, and such article is
					 properly identified.
(b) When dog
					 food or similar uninspected article is manufactured in a part of an official
					 establishment other than an edible product department, the area in which the
					 article is manufactured shall be separated from edible product departments in
					 the manner required for separation between edible product departments and
					 inedible product departments. Sufficient space must be allotted and adequate
					 equipment provided so that the manufacture of the uninspected articles does not
					 interfere with the proper functioning of the other operations at the
					 establishment. Except as provided in section 314.11 of this Article, nothing in
					 this subdivision shall be construed as permitting any deviation from the
					 requirement that dead animals, condemned product, and similar materials of
					 whatever origin, must be placed in the inedible product rendering equipment,
					 and without undue delay. The manufacture of the uninspected article must be
					 such as not to interfere with the maintenance of general sanitary conditions on
					 the premises, and it shall be subject to inspectional supervision similar to
					 that exercised over other inedible product departments. There shall be no
					 movement of any product from an inedible product department to any edible
					 product department. Trucks, barrels, and other equipment shall be cleaned
					 before being returned to edible product departments from inedible product
					 departments. Unoffensive material prepared outside edible product departments
					 may be stored in, and distributed from, edible product departments only if
					 packaged in clean, properly identified, sealed containers.
(c) Animal food shall be distinguished from
					 articles of human food, so as to avoid distribution of such animal food as
					 human food. To accomplish this, such animal food shall be labeled or otherwise
					 identified in accordance with section
					 325.11(e) 
					 of this Subchapter.