New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS › Chapter VI - Food Control › Subchapter H - Unit Pricing › Article 1 - MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS › Part 318 - ENTRY INTO OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS; REINSPECTION AND PREPARATION OF PRODUCTS › Section 318.6 - Requirements concerning ingredients and other articles used in preparation of products

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Agriculture and Markets Law, § 96-z-34
(a) All ingredients and other articles used
					 in the preparation of any product shall be clean, sound, healthful, wholesome
					 and otherwise such as will not result in the product being adulterated.
					 Official establishments shall furnish inspectors accurate information on all
					 procedures involved in product preparation including product composition and
					 any changes in such procedures essential for inspectional control of the
					 product.
(b)
(1) The only animal casings that may be used
					 as containers of product are those from cattle, sheep, swine, or
					 goats.
(2) Casings for products
					 shall be carefully inspected by department employees. Only those casings which
					 have been carefully washed and thoroughly flushed with clean water immediately
					 before stuffing and are suitable for containers, are clean, and are passed on
					 such inspection shall be used, except that preflushed animal casings packed in
					 salt or salt and glycerine solution or other approved medium may be used
					 without additional flushing provided they are found to be clean and otherwise
					 acceptable and are thoroughly rinsed before use.
(3) Hog and sheep casings intended for use as
					 containers of product may be treated by soaking in or applying thereto sound,
					 fresh pineapple juice or papain or bromelin or pancreatic extract to permit the
					 enzymes contained in these substances to act on the casings to make them less
					 resistant. The casings shall be handled in a clean and sanitary manner
					 throughout and the treatment shall be followed by washing and flushing the
					 casings with water sufficiently to effectively remove the substance used and
					 terminate the enzymatic action.
(4)
					 On account of the invariable presence of bone splinters, detached spinal cords
					 shall not be used in the preparation of edible product other than for rendering
					 where they constitute a suitable raw material.
(5) Testicles if handled as an edible product
					 may be shipped from the official establishment as such, but they shall not be
					 used as an ingredient of a meat food product.
(6) Tonsils shall be removed and shall not be
					 used as ingredients of meat food products
(7) Blood from livestock prepared in
					 accordance with section
					 310.20 of this Article may be used
					 as an ingredient of a meat food product for which a standard is prescribed in
					 Part 319 of this Article, if permitted by such standard, and may be used in any
					 meat food product for which no such standard is prescribed in Part 319 of this
					 Article if it is a common and usual ingredient of such product.
(8) Intestines shall not be used as
					 ingredients in any meat food product for which a standard is prescribed in Part
					 319 of this Article and shall not be used in other products unless the products
					 are labeled in accordance with section
					 317.8(b)(30) 
					 of this Article.
(9) Poultry
					 products and egg products (other than shell eggs) which are intended for use as
					 ingredients of meat food products shall be considered acceptable for such use
					 only when identified as having been inspected and passed for wholesomeness by
					 the United States Department of Agriculture under the regulations in 7 CFR Part
					 59 or 70, or  9 CFR Part 381  or by the department and when found to be sound and
					 otherwise acceptable when presented for use. Poultry products and egg products
					 (other than shell eggs) which have not been so inspected and passed for
					 wholesomeness shall not be used in the preparation of such meat food
					 products.
(10) Dry milk products
					 which are intended for use as ingredients of meat food products shall be
					 considered acceptable for such use only when produced in a plant approved by
					 the United States Department of Agriculture under the regulations in 7 CFR Part
					 58, and when found to be sound and otherwise acceptable when presented for
					 use. Dry milk products prepared in a plant not so approved shall not be used in
					 the preparation of such meat food products.
(11) All isolated soy protein used in
					 products prepared in any official establishment shall contain not more and not
					 less than 0.1 percent titanium incorporated as food grade titanium dioxide, and
					 the presence of such substance must be shown on the label of the container of
					 the isolated soy protein at all times that the article is in the official
					 establishment.
(12) Ingredients for
					 use in any product may not bear or contain any pesticide chemical or other
					 residues in excess of levels permitted in section
					 318.16.