Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part I - Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services › Chapter 1 - MEAT HYGIENE › Subchapter I - ENTRY, REINSPECTION AND PREPARATION OF PRODUCTS › PREPARATION OF PRODUCTS › Section 1.340 - Animal food and similar articles

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
Edible product department.
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 product departments, the operations incident to the manufacture of the
					 uninspected article shall be subject 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 byproducts, 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 "Pa.
					 Inspected and Passed." Products specified in §
											1.211 (relating to handling of
					 other condemned products) or parts of carcasses of kinds not permitted under
					 the regulations in this Subchapter 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.
(b)
Other than edible product
					 department.
When dog food or similar uninspected article is
					 manufactured in a part of an official establishment other than an edible
					 product department, such area shall be separated from edible product
					 departments in the manner required for separation between edible product
					 departments and inedible product departments. Sufficient space shall be
					 allotted and adequate equipment provided so that the manufacture of the
					 uninspected article does not interfere with the proper functioning of the other
					 operations at the establishment. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter
					 no deviation from the requirement that dead animals, condemned products and
					 similar materials of whatever origin shall be placed in the inedible product
					 rendering equipment without undue delay shall be permitted. The manufacture of
					 the uninspected article shall 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 as provided in §
											1.548 (relating to animal
					 food).
This section cited in 7 Pa. Code §
													1.296 (relating to certain glands
						  and organs).